Susan Rice Quotes

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Husband
  • Inspiration
  • Author

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Security

• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Politics

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Start
  • Battles

• I think was able to do a lot of things here.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Think
  • Things
  • Here

• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Universe

• Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Free
  • Past
  • Present

• That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Dad

• In my nothing, you were everything, to me.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Great

• In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • America
  • Age

• I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Hand

• Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• When we eat something at a restaurant, however simple it may look, there's something in it that makes you think, 'Well, I couldn't quite do this from home.'

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • May
  • Home
  • Simple

• Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

  

  David Niven
  • Work

• Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Up
  • Blood
  • Drive on

• I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

  

  Susan Rice
  • Action
  • Alone
  • Voice