Nikki Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley) Quotes

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Nikki Haley

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• In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Education

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Will
  • Someone

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Song

• Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Spring

• Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Own
  • Just Because

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
  • Learning
  • Thought

• Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • She
  • Soul

• Che dolce più, che più giocondo statoSaria di quel d'un amoroso core?Se non fosse l'uom sempre stimulatoDa quel sospetto rio, da quel timore,Da quel martìr, da quella frenesia,Da quella rabbia detta gelosia.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.

  

  Gemma Whelan
  • People

• I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

  

  Allen West
  • Pretty
  • Military

• I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Job
  • Courage

• The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • People
  • Strong
  • Decision