Role Quotes - page 9

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. (Chris Matthews)
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons...I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House. View quote
James Callaghan
I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation. View quote
Gerald Ford
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom. View quote
Richard Nixon
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus. View quote
Paul A. Baran
Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth. View quote
Angus Deaton
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. View quote
Michel Patini
I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right? View quote
Natalie Dormer
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. View quote
Peter De Vries
[T]here could be no guarantee in a free market that the interests of race or state as Hitler defined them would take priority over the interests of businessmen or consumers. After 1933 the role of the state in regulating and directing economic life increased sharply, first in order to encourage economic revival, then to divert economic resources to the growth of German military power... [which] led, in an unplanned, incremental way, to the establishment of a kind of command economy. View quote
Richard Overy
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. (Rutger Hauer)
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role. View quote
Sandra Brown
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. View quote
Stacy Schiff
There is a role and function for beauty in our time. View quote
Tadao Ando
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part. View quote
Famke Janssen
Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world. View quote
Shari Arison
Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women. View quote
Shari Arison
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life. View quote
Sean Covey
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. (Bela Lugosi)
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. View quote
Bela Lugosi
'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory. View quote
Ben Macintyre
A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition. View quote
Vasily Smyslov
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. View quote
Gretchen Rubin