Dean Rusk Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
-
Good sports facilities are a blessing.
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
-
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
-
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
-
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
-
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
-
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
-
The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
-
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
-
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
-
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
-
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
-
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
-
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
-
Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.
-
If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
-
I feel that in spite of having a big launch with 'RNBDJ' and the film doing well for me in terms of getting appreciation, I don't think it made me the next big thing.
-
It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
-
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
