Top 100 Abrams Quotes

#1. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #2219
#2. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #2305
#3. The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #11203
#4. We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #18535
#5. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #20161
#6. People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #22506
#7. Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #24688
#8. Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #24730
#9. The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #27106
#10. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

Abrams Quotes #33237
#11. The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #42986
#12. Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #44243
#13. I could feel the tears streaming down my face - in some kind of frenzied competition with the rain. At first, I tried to brush the tears away, but I finally let them take their course, unabated.

Matt Abrams

Abrams Quotes #46636
#14. From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #53488
#15. Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #60929
#16. Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #65000
#17. Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #66725
#18. Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #68148
#19. The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #69163
#20. I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #74343
#21. I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

Dan Abrams

Abrams Quotes #80165
#22. For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #80368
#23. I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #80804
#24. Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #91479
#25. Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

M.H. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #98942
#26. When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #100435
#27. You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

Casey Abrams

Abrams Quotes #101965
#28. A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #102333
#29. CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #102664
#30. In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #105278
#31. J Abrams was driving off into the big stupid vermilion sky, and even though the color had been my favorite, I was sure that from now on, every time I looked at it I would feel nothing but sadness.

Natalie Bina

Abrams Quotes #120022
#32. There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #122258
#33. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.

Sil Lai Abrams

Abrams Quotes #123405
#34. I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #128918
#35. Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #131317
#36. I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Joseph Gatt

Abrams Quotes #131415
#37. While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #134012
#38. I am light and stardust in his hands.

Sierra Abrams

Abrams Quotes #135845
#39. I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #136170
#40. If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

M.H. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #137571
#41. To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #140307
#42. Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #141857
#43. I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

Casey Abrams

Abrams Quotes #144251
#44. Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #145196
#45. There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #159720
#46. Well, we're all victims of our own gene pool. Unfortunately, someone must have peed in yours. - Walter Bishop, "Fringe" (TV)

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #167204
#47. They can say I have an opinion about something.

Dan Abrams

Abrams Quotes #172931
#48. We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #179614
#49. The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #180987
#50. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.

Seraphine Abrams

Abrams Quotes #182088
#51. I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #187425
#52. On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #194414
#53. I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They're all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Abiola Abrams

Abrams Quotes #195869
#54. Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #197194
#55. I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #199480
#56. If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

Casey Abrams

Abrams Quotes #200034
#57. I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #206305
#58. The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #207355
#59. The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #209553
#60. I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #217326
#61. It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #220177
#62. The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

M.H. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #220892
#63. So, what do you know about life when you're eighteen? The rest of your life is nothing but a bunch of big beautiful tomorrows.

Lauren Abrams

Abrams Quotes #221887
#64. My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #224241
#65. The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #232151
#66. We must all face our demons sooner or later.

Matt Abrams

Abrams Quotes #233612
#67. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #239526
#68. Then again, I had become a disappointment. It's easier to find fault with a disappointment.

Matt Abrams

Abrams Quotes #239692
#69. The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq ... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #246725
#70. There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #248451
#71. The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #253303
#72. It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #254341
#73. With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #255371
#74. I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #259943
#75. I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #263176
#76. I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #264123
#77. While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #266798
#78. I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Dan Abrams

Abrams Quotes #269191
#79. On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #286451
#80. President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #290337
#81. The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

Sander Levin

Abrams Quotes #290866
#82. I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #292008
#83. When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #292443
#84. Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #292471
#85. It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #298082
#86. Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve
it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.

Jonathan Evison

Abrams Quotes #301272
#87. There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #302552
#88. Commitment to each other is critical. Let's make our deadlines and due dates mean something. For changes to occur, we have to embrace them over and over. Take it step by step
but keep moving forward
and a year from now, we'll find we've moved from here to there.

Rhonda Abrams

Abrams Quotes #302669
#89. It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Floyd Abrams

Abrams Quotes #304426
#90. When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #307356
#91. The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #308632
#92. If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

John Abrams

Abrams Quotes #313320
#93. The light of God surrounds us. The love of God enfolds us. The power of God protects us. And the presence of God watches over us. Wherever we are, God is, and all is well.

Dwan Abrams

Abrams Quotes #319801
#94. I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #321591
#95. Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #325632
#96. The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #329320
#97. Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail.

Rhonda Abrams

Abrams Quotes #330771
#98. Alan Rickman had to drop into a blue screen stretched over a bag. It might have been 30 feet, which is plenty scary. You'd break your back, especially if you were untrained, but this is the thing about it: What you see on his face when he lets go is real fear. It's one of the greatest shots ever.

Brian Abrams

Abrams Quotes #333596
#99. I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

J.J. Abrams

Abrams Quotes #335274
#100. Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

Elliott Abrams

Abrams Quotes #340260

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