Woodrow Wilson Quotes

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

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• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Rose

• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • You
  • Light

• 'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Moments
  • Practice
  • Poetry

• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Soul

• Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.

  

  Amber Benson

• I'm so glad I didn't ruin a man's life by marrying him.

  

  Lillian Gish
  • Life

• Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu

• It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Fun
  • Write
  • Adele

• All my life, everything has been a contest.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Life

• I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.

  

  Chris Toumazou

• I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Waiting
  • Record

• God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image and the likeness of God; we are holograms, if you will. So the power, the presence, the energy is within you and me. The energy of God, as life, is within each of us.

  

  Mary Manin Morrissey
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Party
  • Voice
  • Views

• He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had come through her eyes straight from her heart. He had known unequivocally that she loved him. He believed to this day that she had died knowing that he loved her. How could she not know? He had dedicated his life to never letting her doubt it.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • God
  • Photograph
  • Lovely

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Spiritual
  • Leadership
  • Achievement