Ed Koch Quotes
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.

Quotes to Explore
-
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
-
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
-
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
-
We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
-
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
-
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
-
The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
-
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
-
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
-
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
-
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
-
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
-
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
-
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
-
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
-
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
-
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
-
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
-
I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
-
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
-
It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English - the best race in the world - cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.
-
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
-
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
-
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.