Condoleezza Rice Quotes

...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Know

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Solution
  • Capacity
  • Middle

• No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Vote
  • Call

• Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Sometimes
  • Personality
  • Gift

• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Research
  • Evidence
  • Details

• It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Music
  • Focus

• Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Name
  • Group

• 'If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Gold

• Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Music
  • Family
  • History

• We started our struggle from 2005, and...we organized a lot of protests, weekly protests, in a place we called the Square of Liberty...We knew and know that the freedom of speech is the door to democracy and justice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Change
  • Trouble
  • Device

• A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Horse

• I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • People

• We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

  

  Saeb Erekat
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• ...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

  

  Condoleezza Rice