Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

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• Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Peace
  • Day

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • May
  • Want
  • Grow

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Because
  • Finding

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Head
  • Shots
  • Bat

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Power

• The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Works
  • Serve
  • Righteousness

• I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Know
  • Say
  • Told

• No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Treasure

• In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • China
  • Criminal
  • Officials

• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Pregnant
  • Sombrero

• Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Life
  • Endure
  • Farce

• If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Moving
  • Destiny
  • Fate

• Imagine a universe made up not of things in space and in time, but of patterned flows extending throughout its reaches. What flows is a mysterious, nonindividualized something we call energy. It flows along pathways structured by the metric of integral space-time. It flows smoothly, without crinks or wrinkles, over vast stretches of this cosmic matrix, and it becomes contorted in some regions.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Universe
  • Imagine
  • Matrix

• It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Proud
  • Selfish

• One of the biggest things we've got going this year is we want to finish, finish, finish. That's about as big a finish as you're going to have.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Things
  • Finish
  • Biggest

• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Character
  • Wish
  • Purpose

• To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Duty
  • Won
  • Presidency