Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes
I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.Bill Clinton
Quotes to Explore
-
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
Harold Pinter -
I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
Xochi Birch -
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn -
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth
-
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi -
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
Randy Lerner -
I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
Ada Yonath -
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde
-
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia -
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
Gaston Bachelard -
πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
Archilochus -
Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.
Alexander Graham Bell -
People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'
Ben Dolnick -
I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.
Kimberly Bryant
-
Evidence is now available to indicate that the 14-to-18- year-old group is an increasing segment of the smoking population. RJR-T must soon establish a successful new brand in this market if our position in the industry is to be maintained over the long term.
R. J. Reynolds -
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
Peter Hain -
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup -
Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.
Ann Nocenti -
People get really caught up in their own trips.
Max Cannon -
I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
Bill Clinton