John F. Kennedy Quotes

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Act
  • Crisis
  • Recovery

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Early

• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Kids
  • Think
  • House

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Myself
  • Proud
  • Thought

• I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Culinary
  • Tastes
  • Recipe

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Done
  • Football

• Look at the genres women like: a romantic comedy game doesn't exist. Few examples of a documentary game exist. What is the equivalent of a real drama game? They don't exist. Emotion with that complexity for a more mature, older audience are necessary to make medium-like video games healthy so it can be highly respected like the film industry.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Women
  • Real
  • Game

• I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Believe

• I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

  

  Valerie June
  • True
  • Myself
  • Path

• Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas' Disease and leprosy are surfacing here...

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Long
  • High

• The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • High
  • Freedom
  • Present