Harry S Truman Quotes

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Harry S Truman

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Evolution

• It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Like
  • Consistency

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Home
  • Like
  • Heels

• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Making

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Like
  • Look
  • Glamour

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I'll back up anything my dad says.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Back

• There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • World
  • You
  • Promise

• It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • Law
  • Opinion

• The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Single
  • Summer

• I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • Family

• Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Power
  • Red
  • Shoes

• Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • High
  • Stop
  • Morning

• I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • May
  • Think

• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Generation

• As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • City
  • Washington