Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Want
  • Evil

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Nobody

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • Done
  • Character

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Opportunities
  • Performance

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Restaurant

• I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Real
  • America
  • Water

• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • World
  • Heart
  • Education

• When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Good
  • America