Bringing Quotes

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. (Colin Powell)
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. View quote
Ron Paul
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. View quote
Gore Vidal
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. View quote
Woody Allen
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal. View quote
Ted Kulongoski
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings. View quote
Patrick Carman
The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public. (Ron Paul)
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. View quote
Jane Goodall
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world. View quote
Brian Molko
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. View quote
David Brin
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. View quote
Plato
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom. (Ayad Akhtar)
She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. View quote
Alan Lakein
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. View quote
Brion James
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. View quote
Christine Gregoire