Leaders Stepping Down Quotes

#1. I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Antony Beevor

#2. Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Allan Gurganus

#3. Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?

David Foster Wallace

#4. Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Neil Patrick Harris

#5. Bad luck that my first glimpse of Venice was marred by an insult.

Beverle Graves Myers

#6. I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.

Ashley Purdy

#8. My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

Kevin Spacey

#9. I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

Chris Hedges

#10. Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

John Wanamaker

#11. All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

Jessica Simpson

#12. New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

Helen Clark

#13. incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

Steve Freeman

#14. In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

Ted Cruz

#15. The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

John F. Kennedy