Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Difference

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Speak
  • Facts
  • Credit

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Want
  • View

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Know
  • Genius
  • Insanity

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Opportunity
  • Mood

• Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Weird

• Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover

• To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Great
  • Path
  • Revolution

• Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Words
  • Faith
  • Ignorance

• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Humility
  • Envy

• Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Chill

• I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Purpose

• My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

  

  Andrew Mitchell
  • Money
  • Focus
  • Value

• It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team.

  

  David Leslie
  • Work
  • Team

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower