Henry Kissinger Quotes

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Henry Kissinger

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• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Hero
  • Tired
  • Two

• I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Success
  • You
  • Learned

• What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Brain

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Writer

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Learn
  • Understand

• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Great
  • Women
  • Constitution

• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Star

• My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Art
  • Parents
  • Artist

• That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Art

• Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Night
  • Paris
  • Now

• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Start

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Something
  • Convince
  • Novels

• If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Room
  • Put
  • Item

• There is a famous painting, Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper. I am in love with that painting. Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. The painting reminds me of you. It breaks my heart.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Painting
  • Sorrow
  • In Love

• Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Lies

• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Know
  • Eye

• In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Values
  • Security
  • Efficient

• A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Foreign Policy
  • Perfection
  • Security