Jimmy Carter Quotes

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Jimmy Carter

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

  

  Beah Richards
  • Life
  • Live
  • Challenge

• You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Good
  • Chance

• I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Day

• Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Victory
  • Lessons
  • Defeat

• If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny
  • Fall
  • Progress

• The war is over - the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Victory

• Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Long

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Dark

• When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Action

• I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

  

  Bill Hicks

• When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS.

  

  Carol Burnett

• Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Thinking
  • Succeed
  • Position

• I like statement earrings.

  

  Deepika Padukone

• Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Food
  • Paris

• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Teacher
  • Changing times
  • Unchanging principles

• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Changing times
  • Unchanging principles