Quotes of: Carter Keyword

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Hayes

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

Brent Scowcroft

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Alan Keyes

I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

Helena Christensen

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

Daryl Sabara

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Jean Smart

Jack O'Donnell: Carter's shitting enough bricks to build the pyramids.

Argo

Edward Cole: Do you hate me? Carter Chambers: Not yet.

The Bucket List

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Martin Mull

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Sarah Clarke

I intend to make Georgia howl.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I don't take criticism lying down.

William Westmoreland

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Jimmy Carter

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Deborah Tannen

Carter's renowned 1979 "malaise speech" [...] is little remembered for what it actually was: a call to arms for fixing our nation's dire energy future. "Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never" [....

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Traveling Salesman at Diner's Bar: Gulls are scavengers, anyway. Most birds are. Get yourselves guns and wipe them off the face of the earth! Mrs. Bundy, elderly ornithologist: That would hardly be possible. Deke Carter - Diner Owner: Why not, Mrs. B...

The Birds

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

The United States and the Middle East

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

Chester W. Nimitz

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger