Leon Uris Quotes

One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

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• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Question
  • Human
  • Human being

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Unique

• As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Question
  • Choice
  • Learned

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Relationship

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • City
  • Deep

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Culture

• Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Diverse

• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Fire

• I felt a lot of pressure, especially for the second jump. I know if I perform my best, I'm pretty sure I will get into the final. But to be ranked at number one in the qualification, it is a big surprise for me because all I want to do is to get into the final.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Pressure
  • Final
  • Second jump

• One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

  

  Leon Uris
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  • World
  • Question