Madeleine Albright Quotes

What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

Madeleine Albright

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• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Money
  • Care

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Character
  • Truth

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Happy
  • Passion
  • Ideas

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Courage
  • Unexpected
  • Occasions

• Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Military
  • September

• Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Free
  • Green

• A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Guilty

• What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Military