Ted Cruz Quotes

You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Work
  • Religious
  • Critical

• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Life
  • Success
  • Moments

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Useful

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Start
  • Cutting

• The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Start
  • Company
  • Hotel

• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  

  Nathaniel Parker
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • God
  • Write
  • Wrote

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Question
  • Single
  • Principle

• J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Philosophical

• about Fruit of the Loom What does fruit got to do with underbritches? I guess it's to remind us when we take them down we go, 'Oh, I should've eaten more fruit today. I guess.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Today

• Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Desire
  • Picture

• If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

  

  Charles Stross

• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Substitute

• Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • World
  • Community
  • Now

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.

  

  Ted Cruz