Walter Wriston Quotes

A country does not go bankrupt.

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• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Mean
  • Thought
  • Go

• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Person
  • Wrong
  • Go

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Know
  • Care

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Long
  • Space
  • Go

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Go
  • Scientist

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Think
  • Difficult

• Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Starvation
  • Famine

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Country
  • Past

• No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his armConfirm the message. His wife stands timidly by.The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm,Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Hope
  • House
  • Wife

• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Alone

• Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Think
  • Place
  • Genius

• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Answers
  • Branches
  • Leaf

• A country does not go bankrupt.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Country
  • Go
  • Bankrupt