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

• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Engage

• 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

• Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Effort
  • Discipline
  • Motivational

• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth

• There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Darkness

• I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Doing
  • Fine
  • Survived

• On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Religion
  • Duty
  • Opinions

• 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