Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Elliott Abrams

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

Gloria Allred

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

John Yoo

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

Reince Priebus

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yode...

A Duke of Her Own

You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

Eleanor & Park

What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

Eleanor & Park

She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her." His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something." "Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said.

Eleanor & Park

Zapitala se je li uistinu moguće izgubiti sve koje voliš unutar tjedan dana.Zapitala se može li čovjek preživjeti takvo što ili ne.A ipak u onim kratkim trenucima gore na krovu s Jaceom bila je zaboravila na majku.Bila je zaboravila na Simona.I...

City of Bones

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too...

Helen Oyeyemi

—No me gustas, Park —repitió Eleanor en un tono que, por un instante, sonó como si hablara en serio—. Yo... —su voz casi se esfumó— creo que vivo por ti. Park cerró los ojos y dejó caer la cabeza contra la almohada. —Ni siquiera pued...

Eleanor & Park

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Dust Tracks on a Road

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

A Discovery of Witches

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians