Bess Truman Quotes

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Death
  • Race

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Care
  • Balance
  • Smiling

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• Being a global citizen makes you a more interesting person.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Interesting

• My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin.

  

  Nahum Goldmann
  • World
  • Work
  • Nature

• I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Up

• Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • People
  • Women
  • Business

• People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

  

  John Holdren
  • People
  • Powerful

• I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

  

  Bess Truman
  • People