Harry S Truman Quotes

When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Want
  • Funny

• I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Action
  • Doing
  • Direction

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Way
  • Regret
  • Act

• Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Success
  • Attitude

• The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Character

• Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Small
  • Peace
  • Nations

• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May
  • Girl
  • Mean

• As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

  

  Yael Dayan
  • Peace
  • Two
  • Love Is

• Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Heart
  • Job

• [Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future.

  

  Zendaya
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Diversity

• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.

  

  Nadezhda Krupskaya
  • Question
  • Environment
  • Path

• Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Always
  • See
  • Wrong

• I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Political
  • Policy
  • Formation

• Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Age

• It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Honor

• Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

  

  Fabio Frizzi
  • Life
  • Composer
  • Warmth

• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  

  David W. Orr
  • Humility
  • Intelligence
  • Celebration

• It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Job
  • Jobs

• With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Important
  • Way

• There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.

  

  Gabrielle Bell
  • Remember
  • Together

• When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Jobs
  • Liberals
  • Tax collectors