Jimmy Carter Quotes

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Jimmy Carter

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• We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Career
  • Single
  • Influence

• I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Long
  • Done
  • Taken

• When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Long
  • Food

• I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Future
  • Past

• It should scare every voter in the 5th District that a powerful D.C. lobbyist is trying to install a personal congressman in our part of Connecticut.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Trying
  • Powerful

• In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Political
  • Lost

• A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Population

• I understand that in a game like Oblivion you don't want it to automatically save all the time. You're making crucial decisions about your path in that game that you may want to change at a later date. Hence, saving all the time might not always be a good thing. But I'll tell you this. I want Gears to save early, and save often.

  

  Cliff Bleszinski
  • Game
  • Want
  • Save

• It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Together
  • Death
  • Lead

• I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Die
  • Never

• Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role - especially when the other sex is around. – page 90.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Sex
  • Fatherhood

• I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

  

  Jeremy Bulloch
  • Famous

• I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

  

  Peter Mayhew

• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Career
  • Form
  • Comics

• Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Lost
  • Existence
  • Sexuality

• Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

  

  Deborah Grey
  • Nervous
  • Nasty
  • Only

• You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

  

  Nicholas Lemann
  • Success
  • Education
  • Support

• I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Proud
  • Obsession
  • Arena

• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • People
  • Superpower
  • Automobiles

• I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Superpower

• Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Superpower