Harry S Truman Quotes

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

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• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Sweet

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.

  

  Ovid

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Girl
  • Lies

• Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Aids
  • Preach
  • Free Love

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.

  

  Luis Miguel
  • God
  • Women
  • Nature

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• I've always loved men.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Men

• My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Women
  • Stop

• The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • American
  • Society
  • Law

• I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Passion

• My shareholders expect me to make the most profit. That's the ugly, dirty truth.

  

  Martin Shkreli
  • Truth
  • Ugly
  • Dirty

• Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Truth
  • Intense feeling