Chaim Weizmann Quotes

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Chaim Weizmann

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Best
  • Practice

• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • She
  • Funny

• When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Church
  • Grandmother

• The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Up
  • Money
  • City

• Freedom is living without chains.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Freedom
  • Living
  • Chains

• I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Story
  • Decisions
  • Dialogue

• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Each song has its own life.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Song
  • Own

• I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Old

• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Year
  • Prove

• When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Down
  • Lie
  • Coaching

• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli

• Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Lost
  • Failure

• The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• 6) It is easier to destroy than create. Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.

  

  Larry Niven
  • World
  • Strong

• In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons was probably a reasonable thing to do.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Light

• And last of all comes death.

  

  Anacreon
  • Death

• You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

  

  Bono U2
  • Future

• Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Strive
  • Nirvana
  • Fantasies

• I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.

  

  Leslie Hope
  • Life
  • School
  • Age

• Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Age
  • Future
  • Fear

• I head a nation of a million presidents.

  

  Chaim Weizmann