Harry S Truman Quotes

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Voice
  • Difficult
  • Really

• I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Down

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Say
  • Movement
  • Intellectual

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Attention

• If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • People
  • Want
  • Purpose

• I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Always
  • Been
  • CIA

• This is the thing that I was born to do.

  

  Samuel Daniel

• What you want, Honey you've got it. And what you need, Baby you've got it. All I'm askingIs for a little respect when I come home.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Home
  • Respect
  • Baby

• Early rising will enhance your productivity, improve your mental outlook, and give you time to exercise, catch up on email, or just have breakfast with your family. In short, if you want to become more successful, it's a good idea to jump out of bed earlier.

  

  John Rampton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.

  

  Jack Reed
  • World
  • War
  • Free

• We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

  

  Bill Condon
  • War
  • Monster

• The absence of war is not peace.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • War
  • Peace