Jimmy Carter Quotes
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
Jimmy Carter
Quotes to Explore
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans
I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Carl von Clausewitz
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
Adam Johnson
I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. Perelman
I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
Naomie Harris
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
It is not the biographer's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.
Lytton Strachey
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson
I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'
Melanie Lynskey
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
Isaac Watts
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.
Jimmy Carter
