John F. Kerry Quotes

I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

John F. Kerry

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• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • House
  • Process
  • Navy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Help

• I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Age
  • Dating

• I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Think
  • Always
  • I Can

• When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Anything
  • Repeat

• They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • High
  • Me

• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Write

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

  

  James Gray
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Emotional

• And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Work
  • Daughter

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Work

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Beautiful
  • Water
  • Beach

• I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • People
  • Truth
  • Powerful