Jimmy Carter Quotes

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

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• We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Bed
  • Quotation

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Spirit

• A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Recognition

• I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Heart
  • She
  • Fun

• There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Nature
  • Humility
  • Gardening

• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Power
  • Free
  • Law

• Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Child
  • Labor
  • Trade

• Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Feel
  • Sadness
  • Appropriate

• I row after health like a waterman.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Health
  • Row
  • Waterman

• Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Man
  • Weakness
  • Condition

• When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Worry
  • Solutions
  • Witness

• As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Writing

• Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Remember
  • Instances
  • Coincidences

• The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Five years
  • 80 turn out

• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Solutions
  • Myths