Jimmy Carter Quotes

The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

Jimmy Carter

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Life
  • You
  • My Life

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Stage
  • Performer

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • High
  • Motherhood

• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Sleep
  • Rose

• The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Mirror

• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Why

• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Writing
  • School
  • Model

• What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Life
  • Good
  • Gratitude

• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Saddam
  • Inspection team