J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

J. Edgar Hoover

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• Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wife
  • Never
  • Unfaithful

• On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Car
  • Shoes
  • Outfit

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Love
  • Learned

• From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Love
  • Die

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Know
  • Me

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• If the books are selling, the money will follow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Money
  • Follow
  • Selling

• A person in my position has to restrain himself.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Position
  • Himself

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Hand

• All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

  

  Liang Chow
  • Food

• If the dangers of racism are apparent, even in a non-violent form, then it was the same for Islamism. Communalist identity politics, self-segregation and group-think are far more damaging to societies in the long run than the odd bomb going off here or there, because it is such a milieu that keeps breeding bomb-makers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Long
  • Identity
  • Racism

• There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Limit
  • Self-restraint
  • Self-Indulgence

• Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • History
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering

• It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Enslavement

• It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover