Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

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• I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Risk

• People love me everywhere I go.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People

• I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Believe
  • May
  • Effort

• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Hope
  • Deep
  • Motivated

• Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Sweet
  • Patience
  • Bitter

• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Reason

• All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Past
  • Environment

• Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Harmony
  • Possession
  • Impulse

• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I never did. I only prepared to win the next day.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Winning
  • Next
  • Prepared

• It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

  

  Chris Shays
  • Hands
  • Washing
  • Pontius Pilate

• Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Knowing
  • Inner Voice

• As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Success
  • Suffering

• Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Strikes
  • Authorities
  • Foreign Policy