John F. Kennedy Quotes

Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Italian

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Working

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Tree

• I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Trust
  • Path

• It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up

• The church's job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Long
  • Job

• My dad had a huge movie collection. So we all had a good sense of entertainment history. I was a Jack Lemmon fan more than most people from my generation.

  

  Kyle Bornheimer
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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