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.

Ted Cruz

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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

• I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

  

  Bella Freud
  • Nice
  • Star

• As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

  

  John Conyers
  • Time
  • America
  • Health

• Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Long
  • History
  • Future

• I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Way

• 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