Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Purpose

• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Know
  • Independent

• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • House
  • Saying
  • Depressed

• There is no suspense in inevitability.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Suspense
  • Inevitability

• I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • God
  • Believe
  • Live

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Think
  • Said

• Avarice is a deadly sin.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Sin
  • Avarice
  • Deadly

• I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Like
  • For Her
  • Certain

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

  

  Karen Black
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Guitarist

• 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Written

• No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Judge

• On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines.

  

  Kate Clinton

• The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Free

• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Military
  • November

• I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

  

  John Cale
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Reading

• There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.

  

  Carolyn See
  • Saying
  • Jerk
  • Tours

• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Present

• "Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Waiting

• I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Beautiful
  • Nightmare
  • Versa

• It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt