Harry S Truman Quotes

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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• ..."I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stuff
  • Laugh
  • Bottle

• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• The chaperone's job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.

  

  Jane Russell
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Chaperones

• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Control
  • Months
  • Hackers

• We want to listen to the inspectors, we want to continue working in the framework of the United Nations.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Want
  • Working
  • United Nations

• The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Artist
  • Create
  • Politicians

• I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

  

  Plato
  • My Life
  • Prove
  • Liars

• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Standing
  • Giants
  • Shoulders

• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  

  William Styron
  • Fun
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Learn
  • Satisfactory
  • Arithmetic

• The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Bible
  • Sin
  • Teaches

• I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Two guys without a life? How much fun could that be?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Guys

• This is an enormous victory over the concerted efforts by the Bush administration to dismantle the Clean Air Act.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Air
  • Victory
  • Administration

• To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

  

  Confucius
  • Remains
  • Administration
  • Surround

• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Administration