Henry Kissinger Quotes

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Henry Kissinger

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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Prospect
  • Visual

• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Years
  • Process
  • Chinese

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • More
  • Difference

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Director
  • Manager
  • Hometown

• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Bitter
  • Cake
  • Sweeter

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Age
  • Small

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Thinking
  • Sacrifice
  • Lucky

• People always like people, you know?

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Real
  • True
  • Daily

• Revolutions never go backward.

  

  Wendell Phillips

• As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

  

  Anthony Gregory
  • Prison
  • Monopolized
  • Habeas Corpus

• If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • For Her
  • For Him

• There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Deep

• I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Right

• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  

  William James
  • Character
  • Feelings
  • Path

• In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Peace
  • Hegemony
  • Balance