William Howard Taft Quotes

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

William Howard Taft

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• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Very
  • Directions

• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Day
  • Myself

• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Star

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Think
  • Cute
  • Cats

• It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Time
  • Light
  • Study

• Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Danger

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Today

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• The decision to become an individual, to allow oneself to be moved by the deepest impulses of the self rather than the social consensus, can only be made with fear and trembling.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Fear
  • Decision

• In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • World
  • Smile

• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  

  Nicholas Fairbairn
  • Moment
  • Wine
  • Minister

• For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• I am very down to earth and practical.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Earth

• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Chance
  • Darkness
  • Breathing

• I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

  

  William Howard Taft