Henry Kissinger Quotes
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Quotes to Explore
-
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-
We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
-
I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
-
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
-
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
-
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
-
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
-
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
-
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
-
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
-
He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
-
I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
-
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
-
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
-
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
-
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
-
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
-
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
-
As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.
-
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
-
Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
-
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
