Jimmy Carter Quotes

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Jimmy Carter

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• Lust

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• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Game
  • Reality

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Book
  • Man

• I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

  

  Kaskade
  • Great
  • Music
  • Stand

• That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Running

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Violence

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friendship
  • Rose
  • Sweets

• The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

  

  Eric Allin Cornell
  • American
  • Culture
  • Period

• When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Every day, I pinch myself. It has been an incredible journey.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Journey

• Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • God
  • Fall

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart