Betty Williams Quotes

Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

Betty Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 22, 1943

Topics

ChildrenWorldProblemCreateBegin

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Joel Osteen

GodYourselfPotentialReachYou

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

John Mayer

AgeDayFlyLookAnythingGoing

You are not going to get married through technology. You are not going to buy a house through technology.

Ana Patricia Botin

TechnologyYouHouseBuyGoingGet

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Steven Spielberg

GratitudeParentsBabyGeneration

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Sissy Spacek

LifeFamilyLoveBusinessMorning

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Tony Snow

FreedomFreeSeriousPresidentMore

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

Tori Amos

YouNowHearLotThemWere

The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'

Michael T. Flynn

IntelligenceBossMeYouEnemyKnow

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Mohsin Hamid

LoveSelfSomeonePlacesOwnBeing

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Luciano Berio

MusicSpiritualConsciousnessFinger

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Julia Glass

GoodHeartMyselfSoulMindReading

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges

MenFightBaldTwoOverBetween

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