John F. Kennedy Quotes

The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.

John F. Kennedy

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• When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Will

• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Will

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Government
  • Never
  • President

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• I'm a real girly-girl.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Girly

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Google
  • Beyond

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Artist

• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Place
  • Kid
  • London

• I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Together
  • True
  • Fashion

• In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Past
  • Period
  • Workout

• I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Mother

• The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Support
  • Quality