Harry S Truman Quotes

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

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• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• I was a Girl Scout!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Scout

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nature
  • Education

• I'm a '90s baby.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Baby

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • Future
  • Doing

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Death
  • Day

• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • May
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • God
  • Influence

• Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Government
  • Gun
  • Now

• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Giving

• ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Meditation
  • Delight

• I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.

  

  Adnan Sami

• Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Society
  • Vision

• One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Service
  • Institutions