"Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself."

-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Tough Quotes #Rice Quotes

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
“I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.”
“Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.”
“Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.”
“Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.”
“Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.”
“He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.”
“I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.”

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