Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Zig Ziglar

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Claude Pepper

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

Richard Dawkins

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

Steve Buyer

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Barack Obama

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maira Kalman

as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established

1776

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

All We Know of Love

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

John Adams

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Journey Through Europe

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

The Rape of Nanking

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The Story of My Life