Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

Bill Clinton

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Home
  • May
  • You

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Way
  • Democracy
  • Carry

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
  • Me
  • Always
  • Guest

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Dream

• A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • May
  • Nature
  • Free

• Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • World

• Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.

  

  Alanis Morissette

• It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Weird

• A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • People
  • Joy

• All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Bad

• One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

  

  Leonid I. Brezhnev

• My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Feelings

• On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Country
  • Free
  • Freedom

• If you are satisfied, you will never see any more progress. One remains dissatisfied, but that doesn't mean that things are not happening.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Progress

• Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Progress
  • Consciousness changes