Donald T. Regan Quotes

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Genius
  • Poems
  • Shakespeare

• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • Hard
  • Grow

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Better
  • Someone
  • Cynicism

• I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Lots

• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Lying

• (On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Done
  • Feels
  • Faces

• My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Thought

• War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • War

• We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

  

  Donald T. Regan
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