Clint Eastwood Quotes

The times call for patience, calm and compromise.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

My name is new in the field, and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many. Our policy then is to give no offense to others—leave them in a mood to come to us if they shall be compelled to give up their first love.

It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace.... Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.

We want instant food … instant peace. We need patience, patience, patience

If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.

I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

I'm certainly not a hard liner, that's clear.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

I urge everyone to be patient and reasonable and I warn against shooting from the hip in the truest sense of the term. Pressure and dialogue are needed.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.