Stephen Kinzer Quotes

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1951

Topics

BusinessPoliticsPowerfulNewTry

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

JoBeth Williams

ThingsDifferentWouldLike

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

PeopleEnvironmentResultNewAccept

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

Andrea Bocelli

YouTeachSingerSomethingIdol

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

Tony Shalhoub

WorkFamilyFatherBusinessManOut

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

Rowan Williams

CommunityTrustPeopleMediaMeet

Work is therapy for the soul.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorkSoulTherapy

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

FindOutHitterPitcherHeTimid

I just take the fights and do what I love.

Donald Cerrone

LoveTakeJustFightsI Love

I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money going out of our community, out of state, and even out of the country, the wind turbines bring the promise of decades of steady rates with the money staying right here.

Chellie Pingree

CommunityMoneyWindThinkBetter

I'm a size 4. In modeling, that's often too big.

Brooklyn Decker

ModelingSizeBigOftenToo

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

William Jay Smith

WillWayWeedAlwaysFreshThrough

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

Phyllis Schlafly

ChildrenSpeakAmericanYouTeach

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