Jimmy Carter Quotes

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Jimmy Carter

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Good
  • Control
  • Evil

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Day
  • Find

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Why
  • Me

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • High
  • Success
  • Small

• I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Society
  • Science
  • Dark

• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Never
  • Mine

• It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Power
  • Future
  • Place

• The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• Because of a great love, one is courageous.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Love
  • Courageous

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Gods
  • Answer

• A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • World
  • America
  • Free

• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Silly
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • May
  • Dark

• A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

  

  Jimmy Carter