Henry Kissinger Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
-
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
-
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
-
There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
-
A mom has to be ready for anything.
-
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
-
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
-
I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
-
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
-
As far as hip-hop is concerned, I'm no expert and rarely think consciously about how I "represent" hip-hop.
-
A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
-
People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
-
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
-
Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
-
I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
-
This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.
-
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
-
Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.
-
You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.
-
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
-
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
-
I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!
-
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
