Alec Reid Quotes

I am absolutely certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that all the arms of the I.R.A. have been decommissioned. I know them well enough to know that they don't play games.

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
  • FBI
  • July

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Teach
  • Some

• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Running
  • Morning
  • Look

• As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Jesus
  • Force
  • Forgiveness

• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Long
  • Win
  • Argument

• The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Regret
  • Compromise

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Write

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Personality
  • Names

• I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

  

  Nelly
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Ifs

• I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Speak
  • Process
  • Term

• You get high hopes and they let you down.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Hopes
  • Let Down

• It's a matter of when my leg is ready. We're talking about 16 games we've got to win (en route to the NBA championship), and I want to make the right decision. As we progress, I want to be 100 percent instead of 75 percent or 65 percent.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Decision
  • Progress
  • Games

• They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Game
  • Play
  • Games

• I am absolutely certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that all the arms of the I.R.A. have been decommissioned. I know them well enough to know that they don't play games.

  

  Alec Reid
  • Games
  • Arms
  • Decommissioned