Harry S Truman Quotes

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Harry S Truman

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Good
  • God
  • Trying

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I am just one human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Human
  • Human being

• I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Small
  • Myself
  • Drug

• I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Wish

• With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Compassion
  • Army

• 'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Different
  • Fun

• Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

  

  Liu Xiang

• More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • People
  • Picture

• I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

  

  JoBeth Williams
  • Earth
  • Connection
  • Texas

• The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Science

• I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Light
  • Present

• I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Women
  • Character

• Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.

  

  Brenda Song
  • Up
  • Growing

• When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• Blockchain startups are suffering from a crippling, archaic, and antiquated state regulatory system - and it's driving innovation abroad. Many blockchain start-ups trigger or may trigger money transmitter laws and regulations.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Money
  • May
  • Suffering

• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • I Like

• I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Words
  • Question
  • Failure

• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Father
  • Failure
  • President of the United States