Barbara Bush Quotes

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

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• I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Success
  • Decision
  • Financial

• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Suffering
  • Emotional
  • Poverty

• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Peace
  • Civilization

• I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • God
  • Mom
  • Acting

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

  

  Van Morrison
  • School
  • Me
  • Myself

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Priority
  • Suicide

• I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

  

  Bill Tierney
  • Game
  • Player
  • I Believe

• I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Opportunities

• The War is not over and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost. But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Fall
  • Mood

• You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Luck
  • Opportunities
  • Step