Ken Livingstone Quotes

My main income is from speaking.

Ken Livingstone

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • American
  • House

• I'm a fast writer.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Writer
  • Fast

• A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Conqueror

• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Lost
  • Identity
  • Now

• I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Want
  • House
  • Me

• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • America
  • Political
  • Struggle

• How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Sky

• So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.

  

  Al Gore
  • Time
  • Moments

• Cease negative mental chattering. - If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Work
  • Proud

• It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Survival

• You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than precisely what grace is: audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited.

  

  Cathleen Falsani
  • Grace
  • Unlimited
  • Audacious

• The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Scientist
  • Rival
  • Theist

• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • People
  • Great
  • Theatre

• If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Moments
  • Identity
  • Wealthy

• My main income is from speaking.

  

  Ken Livingstone