Quotes of: John-kennedy Keyword

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

John Wooden

My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ...

God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

What It is Like to Go to War

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bobby Ray Inman

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Ballard

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Laurel Clark

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

Nelson A. Miles

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Nelson A. Miles

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

Oliver North

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

Oliver North

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

Philip Kearny

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

Peter Pace

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

Pat Robertson

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Pat Robertson

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

Pat Robertson

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

Pat Robertson

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Pat Robertson

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Pat Robertson