Tom Ridge Quotes

I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I feel like I personally have been lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Church

• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Reality
  • Cold
  • Weather

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Really

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • You
  • Support

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Morning

• I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Mind
  • Project
  • Shape

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Game

• I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

  

  Larry David
  • Embrace
  • Stay
  • Panic

• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • American
  • Lost

• It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?

  

  Bono U2
  • Time
  • Why
  • History

• Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

  

  David Sobel
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Spring

• I don't think there's a city that has done more and sustained a higher level of security and protection than New York City.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • City
  • New York
  • Security