Abba Eban Quotes

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.

Abba Eban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: February 2, 1915 - November 17, 2002

Topics

HistoryPeaceWarThinkSurrender

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

TodayPeopleWorldThinkWeirdHigh

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

John Schneider

FilmmakerCoreStoryteller

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

Steven Sinofsky

WorkGoodI AmGenerosityImpossible

Wrestling is a very serious subject for me.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

MeSeriousWrestlingSubjectVery

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

Trisha Yearwood

LifeYouBackGoPlatinumDeal

I can remember when President Nixon basically said, 'All troops have been withdrawn from the delta.' And I said, 'Wait, I'm still here.'

Rodney Frelinghuysen

WaitRememberI CanSaidPresident

Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

Marvin Ammori

SimpleInternetPhoneGoAlways

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

Douglas Booth

MomentStartBookReadingThinkYou

In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.

Chellie Pingree

MoneySmallDownSpecialFollow

When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

Cornelia Parker

WorkMotherMyselfBe DifferentYou

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

Claire Danes

CharacterBeautifulPerformanceI Can

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people.

Clark Duke

PeopleYouKnowConservativeBaptist

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