Henry Kissinger Quotes

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Henry Kissinger

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• The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Always
  • Capacity
  • Curious

• I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Future
  • Capacity

• The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • War
  • Will
  • Capacity

• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Good
  • Film
  • Wanted

• And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Question
  • Humans
  • Might

• I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Help
  • Team
  • Season

• And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Ignore
  • Capacity
  • Bravery

• I am encouraged that more work has been done in the last few months compared to before. But still there are many gaps that we need to fill in terms of human and laboratory capacity and infrastructure.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Work
  • Done
  • Capacity

• Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.

  

  Benito Juarez
  • Free
  • Human
  • Capacity

• Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Circumstances
  • Capacity
  • Attract

• The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Together
  • Career
  • Actors

• I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Lost
  • Capacity
  • Gentle

• Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Capacity
  • Test

• Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Single

• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Law
  • Justice

• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Everyday

• The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Capacity
  • Trait