Charles Krauthammer Quotes
It’s the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field, what choice do we have but to carry the fight to them?
Quotes to Explore
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
-
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
-
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
-
It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
-
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
-
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
-
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
-
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
-
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
-
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
-
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
-
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
-
I think if I have learned one thing from all of my family members, both sides of it - my mom's side, my dad's side and everyone else - it's that every one of us has a responsibility to do what we can to contribute back and make our communities and our country a better place.
-
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
-
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
-
I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.
-
It’s the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field, what choice do we have but to carry the fight to them?