Henry Kissinger Quotes

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Henry Kissinger

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• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Past

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • See

• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Design

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Strong
  • Lost

• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Time
  • Age
  • Sex

• A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

  

  Zengzi
  • Work
  • Men
  • Humility

• Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People

• Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Memories
  • Our Memories

• I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

  

  Estelle
  • Control
  • Baby
  • I Remember

• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Love
  • Principles
  • Abstract

• While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Never Give Up
  • Principles