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

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

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Women
  • Character

• I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Relationship

• Don't take too much advice.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • Advice

• I just love to see people having a good time.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Thank You

• It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Effort

• I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

  

  James McBride
  • Book
  • Style
  • Dirty

• 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