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
  • Education
  • Knowledge

• 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

• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  

  Caleb Scharf
  • Real
  • Existence
  • Answers

• I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Philosophy
  • Doors
  • Shame

• How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked. Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?" "He'd love to!" Gary said. Tristan shot him a look, "Good," said Ivy, failing to notice Gary's wink. "Ella can be a pillow hog, but all you have to do is roll over her.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Feels
  • Failing
  • Bed

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

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Capacity
  • Trait