Graham Allison Quotes

#1. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

#2. There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Graham T. Allison

#3. People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Banksy

#4. I think I'm a million different faces.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#5. When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

Graham T. Allison

#6. Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger.

Graham T. Allison

#7. All it took was to see him, to hear those words that I was his, and I was falling in love, so hard and so fast all over again.

Karina Halle

#8. A whole castle full of damsels intent upon securing a husband?" Wesley mimicked in surprise. "Why, of course. What reasonable man would not be thrilled with such a prospect?"

-Wesley

Katharine Ashe

#9. The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Graham T. Allison

#10. Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

Thomas E. Mann

#11. When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Gautam Adani

#12. Kathryn, my dear child! What is wrong?

Sherrill Bodine

#13. I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.

Sloane Stephens

#14. If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Herbert Croly

#15. The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

Martin Naughton

#16. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road.

Zora Neale Hurston

#17. clean, efficient, rational, and predictable government is a competitive advantage.26

Graham Allison

#18. For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.

Graham T. Allison

#19. If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Jessica Day George

#20. mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.

Novalis

#21. No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

Katherine McIntyre