Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

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• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better

• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eyes
  • Line
  • Horizon

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Write

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Eyes

• When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Football

• I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Eyes
  • Wise
  • Brave

• The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • She
  • Light

• Thrown like a star in my vast sleep I open my eyes to take a peep To find that I was by the sea Gazing with tranquillity. 'Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Came singing songs of love...

  

  Donovan
  • Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Star

• I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Believe
  • Animal

• Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • People
  • Real

• I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Goals
  • Forward

• You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Heart
  • Calm

• Writers, artists, and commentators on websites are detained or thrown into jail when they reflect on democracy, opening up, reform and reason. This is the reality of China.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Democracy

• There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Eyes
  • Partisan
  • Bipartisan