You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Israel is not an aviary.

An expert is a man who understands everything, and nothing else.

The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.

Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness disaster response and disaster recovery.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

You can make a mistake and get caught in a submission, but Chuck made a mistake and he got caught in an ass whoopin’

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

There can't be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there's always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

I've always been a very active person.