Henry Kissinger Quotes

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

Henry Kissinger

• Grew Up
• Germany
• Nazi period

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Fly
  • Obstacles
  • Vanish

• Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Soul
  • City

• Irrigate crops at short intervals and apply light irrigation especially in the evening.

  

  Anand Sharma
  • Light
  • Short
  • Apply

• During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • American
  • Trump

• Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Taken
  • Leader

• Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Firsts
  • Native

• More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Help

• We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Drink
  • Sake
  • Benediction

• He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Heart

• Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Why
  • Movie

• I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

  

  Kabir
  • Great
  • God
  • Needs

• Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

  

  Jim Elliot
  • World
  • Father
  • Values

• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Powerful
  • Imagination

• What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • People
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Fool
  • Found
  • Mistress

• Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Truth
  • Existence
  • Spirituality

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• Now I'm sitting quietly at home again and I'm happy to be able to work undisturbed. I made a lot of sketches of life in Germany and it was very intriguing to see life there in Berlin, a stay for three weeks. I was also glad to see the old pictures of Rembrandt, Dürer, etc. again and to have the confirmation and encouragement they gave me. As for the moderns, I saw damned little that gripped me.. .Modern German painting has moved so far away from me and become unintelligible in areas in which my work had, and still has, an influence; but people like Klee, Kandinsky, etc. have moved much closer to me again, in fact I value the Bauhaus more and more. These people are working and developing. You can see that there is development. And they love their work, which is the main thing.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Happy
  • Painting
  • Influence

• I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Grew Up
  • Germany
  • Nazi period