Hillary Clinton Quotes

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

Hillary Clinton

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• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Money
  • Small

• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Down

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

  

  Walter Payton
  • You
  • Change
  • Now

• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Either

• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Man
  • Day

• I don't believe we're the party of big business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Party

• When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.'. Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life

• I know that many will call this useless work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Political

• Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Achieve

• So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Nsa

• I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • World
  • Stories
  • Helping

• Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Suicide

• If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Racism

• We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Violence
  • Communities