Robert M Quotes
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.
Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.
I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.
It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.
Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.
He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.
Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.
Great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.
People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
