Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

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• The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Best
  • Period

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Women
  • Movies

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

  

  Max Lerner
  • History

• The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

  

  Arthur L. Herman
  • War
  • Interesting
  • Action

• I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Music
  • Rock

• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Great
  • Community
  • Jump

• To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Career

• Nice goes much further than mean.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Nice

• Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

  

  Nicole Hollander
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Cat

• A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

  

  Max Lerner
  • World
  • Technology
  • Suicide

• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live
  • Attention
  • Die

• Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Red
  • Blue

• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Suicide
  • Murder
  • Committing