Jimmy Carter Quotes

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Jimmy Carter

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Science
  • Years
  • Fiction

• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Always
  • Greatest
  • Equal

• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
  • Our
  • Our Dreams

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Friends are not made, but recognized.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Friends
  • Made
  • Recognized

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Attention
  • Stories

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Organization
  • Start

• I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Need
  • I Can

• I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Like

• Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Black
  • Freedom

• There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Society
  • Moving

• I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Winning

• In a free market capitalist system, 'price signals' are everything. Prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the free market, and these prices are broadcast from the exchanges, reaching all corners of the economy - where they are used to transact business.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Business
  • Free

• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

  

  Dory Previn
  • God
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • World
  • Hope
  • Die

• And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

  

  Billy Sunday

• I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Peace
  • Universe