Jimmy Carter Quotes

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

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• It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Monster
  • Inexhaustible
  • Dissonant

• Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reader
  • Sheep

• We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Fighting
  • Authority
  • Advantage

• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  

  William Penn
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Roots

• How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Values
  • Answers
  • Doctrine

• In His will, our peace.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Peace

• Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system

  

  David McClelland
  • Ideas
  • Needs
  • Leader

• Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • God
  • Gift
  • Emotions

• The rubies are so pink, pink itself will stare in disbelief.

  

  Anosh Irani
  • Pink
  • Disbelief
  • Rubies

• Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Rulers
  • Measuring

• Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

  

  Dave Allen
  • Comedian
  • Finger

• Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • People
  • Writing

• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Combat
  • Reconciliation