Jimmy Carter Quotes

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Dressed

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Government
  • Growth

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Home
  • Peace

• Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • You
  • Healing

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Together
  • Band
  • Find

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• We spend a lot of time talking to our kids about the need to get involved in something.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Involvement

• Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Truth
  • Prejudice
  • Weak

• These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Stars
  • Darkness
  • Sadness

• The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Said

• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  

  Josh Turner

• And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • President
  • Littles

• My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • President
  • Harry Truman