Harry Hopkins Quotes

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

Harry Hopkins

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• I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Happy
  • City

• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Success
  • Best
  • Consequences

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Rest
  • Ourselves
  • Feminine

• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Action
  • Revolution
  • Pressure

• The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Religion
  • Kingdoms

• I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Radio
  • Tape

• My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Mercy

• Other calculations of his show that to keep pace with the present rate of temperature change, plants and animals would have to migrate poleward by thirty feet a day, and that a molecule of CO2 generated by burning fossil fuels will, in the course of its lifetime in the atmosphere, trap a hundred thousand times more heat.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Change
  • Lifetime
  • Atmosphere

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• ...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Head
  • Breaking
  • Shovel

• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • Lifetime
  • Standards
  • Heads of households