Sam Walton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
-
We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
-
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
-
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
-
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
-
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
-
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
-
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
-
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
-
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
-
Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
-
For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
-
Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.
-
No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.
-
When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.
-
All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
-
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
-
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.
-
What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
