J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Karl Kraus
- Mean
- Better
- Express
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

S. Jay Olshansky
- People
- World
- Japanese
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Orison Swett Marden
- Man
- Strong
- Successful
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

Walter Kohn
- World
- War
- Philosophy
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge
- Up
- Time
- Work
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

Gabrielle Zevin
- Time
- Music
- Writing