Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Good
  • Yoga
  • Legs

• Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Economy
  • Down
  • Grow

• I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Always
  • Never

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Everyone
  • To Love

• Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Learning
  • Pet
  • Parenting

• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• I like Victoria Beckham's fashion sense. In Bollywood, Kangana Ranaut is really out-of-the-box and quirky.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Fashion

• I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.

  

  Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Influence

• The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Story
  • Americans
  • Told

• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Forgiveness
  • Conflict
  • Revenge