Harry S Truman Quotes

The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

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• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Believe
  • Die

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Well
  • Sexuality

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Day
  • End

• The truth sustains me.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sustains

• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Image
  • Daddy

• My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Always
  • Philosophy
  • Fulfill

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Interesting
  • Find
  • Sadness

• I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Evangelist

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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

• Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Planning
  • Little
  • Fish

• Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Love
  • Sorrow
  • Escape

• .. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Understand

• The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Way
  • Pioneers
  • Newcomers