Jimmy Carter Quotes

I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace, we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Personal

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Fight
  • Values
  • Terrorism

• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Influence

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Way
  • Food

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Job
  • Law

• The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Reason
  • Painting
  • Liberty

• A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Always
  • Lonely
  • Insect

• Why was I born with such contemporaries?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Why
  • Born
  • Contemporaries

• I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Up
  • Service
  • Doing

• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Reason

• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Believe
  • Comforting
  • Fairy

• The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • War
  • Momentum

• In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Cutting

• The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

  

  Kamahl
  • Water
  • Air
  • Fly

• If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

  

  James Reston
  • Home

• It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

  

  Jacques Barzun

• I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • War
  • Past

• I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace, we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.

  

  Jimmy Carter
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