Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Bill Clinton

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Hold
  • Shape
  • Our

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Days
  • Continue
  • Heroic

• Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • System
  • Take

• The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Attention
  • Brain
  • Poor

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Forest
  • Trees
  • Fires

• I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Like
  • Dance

• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Giving
  • Small
  • Gravity

• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • Human
  • Conscious

• Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

  

  William Loughton Smith
  • Policy
  • Prosperity
  • Southern

• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Game

• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Human
  • Human Energy