Stephen Ambrose Quotes

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

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• Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
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• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Desire

• I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Relationship

• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • News

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Things
  • Point

• As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Alone
  • Matter
  • Author

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Silence

• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • College
  • Service

• I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Believe
  • Happy
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• When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Joy
  • Moments
  • Design

• We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

  

  David Cameron
  • World
  • Chinese

• Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Up
  • Girl

• I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Different
  • Choices

• Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Duty
  • Assuming
  • Honorable

• I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

  

  Michael Shanks
  • Comedy
  • Grain

• Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Wisdom
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Choices
  • Written
  • Century