Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Society
  • College

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Hunger

• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Death
  • Dream

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Better

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Question
  • About
  • Antisocial

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Free
  • Child

• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• 'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Know
  • Bizarre

• Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Aid

• Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Team
  • Manager

• I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Great
  • Love
  • City

• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Beast
  • Resemble

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Universe

• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Money
  • I Believe

• Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Compromise
  • Oil
  • Governments