Dean Acheson Quotes

'...old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain...After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.

Dean Acheson

• Rain

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Romantic

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God

• You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Earth
  • Violence

• It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • World
  • America
  • History

• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  

  Epictetus
  • Study

• When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

  

  Jo Cox
  • Rain

• The poems turned up everywhere. Soon the lady of the house went into fits of hysteria when she kept discovering this attack of poetry in the most unlikely places—under doors, in the mother-of-pearl latticework of windowpanes, under jars, stones, flowerpots, loaves of bread, and even delivered by homing pigeons, around whose rose-coloured claws the young matador lovingly wound poems in which he declaimed his love in the quaint language whose provenance was unknown to the world and still evoked images of the uninterrupted empires of Visigiths, the unbridled lust of the Huns and the intransigence of the Berbers. The young maiden recognized only a few words, but to her they were fragments of a secret music: zirimiri, fine rain; senaremaztac, husband and wife; nik behar diren guzian eginen ditut, I shall do everything necessary....

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Husband
  • Rain
  • Lady

• '...old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain...After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Rain