Harry S Truman Quotes

I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

Harry S Truman

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• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Bad
  • History

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Kind
  • New
  • Tell

• The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People

• How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Together

• In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Risk

• Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Success
  • Failure

• Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • War

• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

  

  Jerry Pournelle

• Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

  

  David Quammen
  • Live
  • Animal

• I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.

  

  Lisa Murkowski

• I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

  

  Peter Navarro

• Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Ants

• I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Back
  • Plans
  • Days

• The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

  

  David Steinberg
  • People
  • Up

• I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • History
  • Question
  • Balfour Declaration