Otto Hermann Kahn Quotes

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Space
  • Kind

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Energy

• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • House
  • Yard

• When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • People
  • House

• I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Live
  • Family
  • Home

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty