Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Broadway is really my life.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
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You'll never get my mind rightlike 2 ships passing in the night.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
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That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
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True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
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There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
