Tom Ridge Quotes
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
-
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
-
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
-
I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
-
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
-
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
-
It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
-
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
-
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
-
I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
-
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
-
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
-
The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
-
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
-
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
-
Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
-
I have a rich, full, textured life.
-
When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
-
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
-
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.
-
What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.
-
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
-
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
