Henry Kissinger Quotes

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry Kissinger

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• I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Care

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Three

• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Country
  • America
  • Speak

• Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • God
  • Long
  • Culture

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Lying
  • Said

• You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Die
  • Forever
  • Lord

• I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Doubt

• The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before.

  

  Zeljko Obradovic
  • Bad
  • Hate
  • Mistake

• A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Journey

• I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Found
  • Reactions

• I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing and I had done another. And so?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Way
  • Right
  • My Life

• Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

  

  Andrea Gibson
  • Yourself
  • Lifetime
  • Loving

• This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus
  • Spirit
  • Stories

• When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • Today
  • Realism
  • Describing

• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Paradox

• We can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Realism
  • Metaphysics

• The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Death
  • Dying

• There is no realism without an element of idealism.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Realism
  • Idealism