Harry S Truman Quotes
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
Quotes to Explore
-
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
-
The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
-
Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
-
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
-
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
-
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
-
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
-
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
-
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
-
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
-
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
-
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
-
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
-
If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
-
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
-
We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
-
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
-
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
-
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
-
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
-
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
