Harry S Truman Quotes

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

Harry S Truman

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• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Community

• I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Friends
  • Respect

• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Reading
  • Certain
  • Crisis

• The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Quran

• Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Boat

• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Fool

• Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Important
  • Freedom

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Die

• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Superman

• I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Forever

• You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.

  

  Byron Howard
  • People
  • Money
  • Hope

• The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Desire

• I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Never
  • Principles
  • Motivate

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Live
  • May
  • Die

• I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • War
  • Stop
  • Proud

• If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • War
  • Peace
  • Die