Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Better
  • Trump

• Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Dad
  • Manager
  • Hospital

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Difficult
  • Bitter
  • Wars

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.

  

  Larry Wall

• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad … but I could never find me a double hammock.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Desire

• Desolate-Life is so dreary and desolate-Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle,Yet with itself every soul standeth single,Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-Holding and having its brief exultation-Making its lonesome and low lamentation-Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

  

  Alice Cary
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

  

  Matt Lauer

• It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Good
  • Celebrity

• The world I was born into was one filled with music.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • World
  • Music

• I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Pretty

• Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Peace
  • Healing

• A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You're a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn't matter. But you're going to get paid different money.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Different
  • Money

• An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Values
  • Act
  • Attack

• Of these greater things I speak to you tonight. It seems to me right to do so here, in Philadelphia, where our forefathers defined the principles by which our nation was born and has ever lived.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower