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

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• 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
  • You
  • Way
  • 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 think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

  

  Gemma Jones
  • Hope

• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Victory

• It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Beautiful
  • Looks
  • Strange

• I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Heart
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• 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