Harry S Truman Quotes

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts...

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• I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Man
  • See

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Girly

• Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Group
  • Thank You

• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Painful

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • School
  • Fun
  • Funny

• It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

  

  Flume
  • Fun
  • Voice
  • Explore

• I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Want
  • Smoking
  • Smoke

• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • New

• For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Free
  • Personal
  • Windows

• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Change
  • Desire
  • Better

• Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• I have not seen a man over there, and so I wonder whether my neighbor has a husband or her boy has a father. I would be sad to think that he doesn’t, but having a father isn’t necessarily a good thing. I have one, and while he did buy this house for me to live in, he also has his lawyer send me a lot of letters and may not have given any thought to radiant floor heating.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Neighbor

• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • May
  • Election
  • Promises

• If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Country
  • History
  • Looks

• We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did the election ads is, I thought I could learn something. Like, what the hell is going on? I think anybody - particularly a person of leftist persuasion such as myself - who stops and thinks even for a moment, realizes that something strange is going on and we don't quite get it.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Learn
  • Imagine
  • Election

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts...

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Election
  • Horse race