Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Van Wyck Brooks

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cobbett

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

William Cobbett

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Antonia Fraser

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Antonia Fraser

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Antonia Fraser

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

Antonia Fraser

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

Alec Guinness

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Arthur Helps

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Alfred Russel Wallace

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

Bill Dedman

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.

Bill Dedman

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Juan Cole

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

Ronald Steel

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Virginia Foxx

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren Bennis

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

William Blum

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

William Camden

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

William John Wills

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Zora Neale Hurston