Jimmy Carter Quotes

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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• So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Work
  • Wish

• We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Army
  • Gun

• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Knife
  • Sharpening

• I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Study
  • Body

• No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Long
  • True
  • Small

• Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

  

  Adele
  • Sports
  • Body
  • Clothes

• The truth, ... is that Microsoft has been a monopolist found by a federal judge to have undercut innovation and hence competition and consumer welfare.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Truth
  • Judge
  • Competition

• I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Face

•  My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • American
  • Story
  • Horror

• Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedian
  • Laziness

• When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Angry
  • Preach
  • Temptations

• Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Government
  • Benefit
  • Clinton

• After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

  

  George Clooney
  • Kids
  • Fine
  • Pediatrician

• Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Break

• The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

  

  Al Ries
  • Generation
  • Product
  • Comes

• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Benefit
  • Globalization