George Pratt Shultz Famous Quotes
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
"Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people."
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer."
George Pratt Shultz Quotations
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race."
Oprah Winfrey
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G K Chesterton
"When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others."
Eda LeShan
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Aristotle
"It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated."
Newt Gingrich
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
Kin Hubbard