Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

William Graham Sumner

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

William Irwin Thompson

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

William Irwin Thompson

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Zora Neale Hurston

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Antony Beevor

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

Bill Dedman

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

David McCullough

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Guy Ritchie

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

Robert Caro

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

T. Boone Pickens

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Richard Dawkins

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the deat...

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

Lamar Alexander

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participati...

Michelle Bachelet

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored......

Abdolkarim Soroush

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

Chuck Palahniuk