Henry Kissinger Quotes

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Henry Kissinger

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• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Dark

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Story
  • Very
  • Tell

• Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Poetry
  • Will
  • Greatest

• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Love
  • She

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • True
  • Pain

• Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Deep
  • Feelings

• All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Care
  • Needs

• What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Man
  • Say

• Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot like silver bees, and sound with your own brain the mystery, hazarding at the inscrutable plan of things.

  

  R. H. Barlow
  • Dance
  • Mystery
  • Plan

• Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

  

  Wilson Pickett
  • Dancing
  • Bones

• The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Memory
  • Duty

• The Miz can out brawl Randy Orton. Out wrestle him, out shine him, out smart him and out class him.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Smart
  • Class
  • Shining

• Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Revolutionaries
  • Illusion
  • West