Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
Dana Goodyear -
It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
Daniel Bryan -
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan -
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
Jack Ma
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
Dan T. Cathy -
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
Ed Asner -
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu -
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Karl Rove -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar -
I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey -
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim -
Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
Eddie Bracken -
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke -
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
Gaby Hoffmann
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
James Wolcott -
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
Tad Williams -
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt