Jimmy Carter Quotes

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Jimmy Carter

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• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Nature
  • Economic
  • Medicine

• The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Terrorist
  • Capital

• As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Character
  • History
  • Face

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lost
  • Reflection

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

  

  Artur Schnabel

• In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People

• All I do is scream your name.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles

• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• You really notice how you're growing when you go on tour. To be able to tour around the world, and do bigger venues every year, is really, really cool.

  

  Astrid S
  • World
  • Growing
  • Cool

• My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Done
  • Father
  • Guy

• Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Picture
  • Paint
  • Important Thing

• I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Pro-Israeli
  • Biblical prophecy