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
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
Ursula Andress -
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 -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
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 -
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 -
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
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
Jack McDevitt -
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 -
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter -
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 -
It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
Kris Allen
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All my life, everything has been a contest.
Bobby Riggs -
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 -
There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
James Redfield -
You won't be surprised to know, therefore, that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same organisation at the top level where the Elders of the Mormons and the leaders of the Watchtower Society operate a very different agenda to the one their followers believe.
David Icke -
When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.
Sean William Scott
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Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
Brian Tracy -
This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.
C. S. Lewis -
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
Victor Hugo -
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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