Harry S Truman Quotes

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

Harry S Truman

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• Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Long
  • Fly
  • Bird

• If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

  

  King James I
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • King

• If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Own
  • Prisoner
  • Castle

• Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Independent
  • Prisoner

• A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prisoner
  • Jailer

• The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trying
  • May
  • Justice

• We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Hands

• Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

  

  William Hague
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Prisoner

• Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Creature
  • Prisoner
  • Timeless

• He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Friend
  • Justice
  • Prisoner

• Quauhtemoctzin was taken prisoner on St. Hippolytus' day, the 13th August, 1521, about the hour of vespers. Praise and glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to his blessed mother, the Virgin Mary. Amen.

  

  Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • Glory
  • Prisoner
  • Lord Jesus Christ

• If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

  

  Avan Jogia
  • Think
  • Care
  • Prisoner

• Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

  

  Kathleen Brown
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Committed

• It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Prisoner
  • Occured

• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Persons
  • Meaningful
  • Patient

• Lost in Static 18 And the storm is closing in now Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell You're a prisoner of the dark sky The propeller blades are still And the evil eye of the hurricane's Coming in now for the kill

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Storm
  • Prisoner
  • Trapped

• I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Ordinary
  • Prisoner

• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Trouble
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Support
  • Companionship
  • Spiritual Paths

• You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • You Only Live Once

• They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.

  

  William Manchester
  • Men
  • History
  • Volunteer

• We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

  

  William Golding
  • Mad
  • Illusion
  • Confusion

• I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Prisoner
  • Joe Stalin
  • Politburo