Jimmy Carter Quotes

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Value
  • Never
  • Say

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.

  

  Angelus Silesius

• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Good

• Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • Resentment

• Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• Success is the reward for toil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Success
  • Reward
  • Toil

• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Found
  • Intelligence
  • Spirits

• When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Child
  • Opponent

• A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Learn
  • Price
  • Lion

• We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.

  

  Sarah Wright
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Struggle

• In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.

  

  Anthony DeCurtis
  • Model
  • Audience
  • Behavior

• The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Hurts
  • Wars

• You don’t like it, especially that we were the champions and individually I have that award. And we have this floating over our head when we just had such an unbelievable season. We had the perfect team and great camaraderie with everybody, and then this gets thrown out here.

  

  Steve Pearce
  • Team
  • Season
  • Champions

• We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Wars