Harry S Truman Quotes

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Harry S Truman

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• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Little Things

• John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Music
  • Style
  • Crazy

• I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Testosterone

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.

  

  Nagaru Tanigawa
  • Why

• A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Stories

• There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • World
  • Problems
  • Roundhouse

• I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Long
  • Matters
  • Critical

• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  

  William James
  • Achievement
  • Motivational
  • Clever

• Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Live
  • Patriarchy
  • Doctrinaire

• It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Metaphor
  • Explaining

• 70 percent of Turkey’s citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Citizens
  • Member
  • Turkey

• To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Mistake
  • Failing
  • Watches

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.

  

  Kamala Lopez
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Lying

• There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.

  Mandy Bujold
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Good
  • Why
  • Turkey

• A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Tree
  • Pool

• I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Turkey
  • Crow