Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Think
  • Wife
  • Be Prepared

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Think
  • Fall

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • You
  • Like
  • Patience

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Really
  • Justin

• What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Away

• The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Win

• Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Power
  • Nature

• I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Style

• I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Just

• My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Choice

• The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Seasons

• There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Good
  • Me
  • Chance

• Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Then
  • Grant
  • Thou

• If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

  

  Mahavira
  • Up
  • Today
  • Day

• If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Right
  • Have
  • Guns

• The reality of today, in most other countries, the number of people affected is a handful, but we don't know what it will be in a week or two.

  

  Chase Carey
  • Reality
  • Week
  • Affected

• Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Done
  • Help

• I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Gear

• I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.

  

  Régine Alexandra Chassagne Arcade Fire
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Reading

• The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt