Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

Bill Clinton

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• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Deep
  • Balance
  • Theatre

• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hand

• After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Almost

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Son
  • Transformation

• Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

  

  Vanity
  • Experience
  • Mad

• 'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Music
  • Forever

• I don't speak for anyone but Cindy. (Chico CA May 2007)

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • May

• One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Mystery
  • Eternal

• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison

• I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

  

  James Tobin
  • Career

• I have lit my treasured candles, one by one, to hallow this night. With you, who do not come, I wait the birth of the year. Dear God! the flame has drowned in crystal, and the wine, like poison, burns Old malice bites the air, old ravings rave again, though the hour has not yet struck.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • God
  • Night
  • Air

• So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • People
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Love
  • Definitions

• The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Power
  • Military
  • Example