Famous Quotes Name D

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Lloyd When I met Mary, I got that old fashioned romantic feeling, where I'd do anything to bone her.

Lloyd What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together

Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.

Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me

Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

A little pot boils easily.

When two quarrel, both are to blame.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School

From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.