Jimmy Carter Quotes
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Quotes to Explore
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When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
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What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology...
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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
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If I could do it all over again, I'd be the mailman. I love housewives, and I hate dogs. What more is there?
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.
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Well, you know, once again, Donald Trump is implying that he didn't support the invasion of Iraq. I said it was a mistake.
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"Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God.
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
