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Political speech12 quotes
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. — Richard Nixon · 1969People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. — Richard Nixon · 1973Let us be proud that our system has produced and provided more freedom and more abundance, more widely shared, than any system in the history of the world. — Richard Nixon · 1973We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. — Richard Nixon · 1969Our children have been taught to be ashamed of their country, ashamed of their parents, ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world. At every turn, we have been beset by those who find everything wrong with America and little that is right. But I am confident that this will not be the judgment of history on these remarkable times in which we are privileged to live. — Richard Nixon · 1973In our own lives, let each of us ask—not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself? In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask—not just how can government help, but how can I help? — Richard Nixon · 1973All 12 quotes →Commencement address6 quotes
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs · 2005Stay hungry, stay foolish. — Steve Jobs · 1974Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs · 2005Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on. — Steve Jobs · 2005You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference. — Steve Jobs · 2005Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron · 1996Autobiography and memoir5 quotes
Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another. — Jessamyn West · 1973Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion · 2011I suggested that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. — Huey P. Newton · 1973Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? — Maxine Hong Kingston · 1976We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all. — Joan Didion · 2005Rock music5 quotes
Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, that red, white, and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one. — Creedence Clearwater Revival · 1969I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me? — Beck · 1993Home is wherever I'm with you. — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros · 2010What a long, strange trip it's been. — The Grateful Dead · 1970What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound,
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now. — The Doors · 1967Biography3 quotes
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. — Wilson Mizner · 1953A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. — Wilson Mizner · 1953Legal writing3 quotes
These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone... We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. — Earl Warren · 1954Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. — Earl Warren · 1966Comedy (play)2 quotes
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder · 1954My advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy. — Thornton Wilder · 1942Comedy drama2 quotes
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. — Lester Bangs · 2000Music, you know, true music, not just rock n roll, it chooses you. — Lester Bangs · 2000Comedy drama (film)2 quotes
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. — Lester Bangs · 2000Music, you know, true music, not just rock n roll, it chooses you. — Lester Bangs · 2000Documentary (film)2 quotes
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. — Steve Jobs · 1996We all make mistakes. We know we make mistakes. I don't know any military commander, who is honest, who would say he has not made a mistake. There's a wonderful phrase: "the fog of war." What "the fog of war" means is: war is so complex it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily. — Robert McNamara · 2003Pop music2 quotes
When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. — The 5th Dimension · 1967I can’t make you love me if you don’t.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t. — Bonnie Raitt · 1991Scientific literature2 quotes
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez · 1967Dinosaurs are a touchstone that separates the mentality of children from that of adults. — Dale Russell · 1989Sociology2 quotes
What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. — Naomi Wolf · 1990"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. — Naomi Wolf · 1990Biography (film)1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969Comedy1 quote
My advice to you is not to inquire into why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-that's my philosophy. — Thornton Wilder · 1942Drama1 quote
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go, doesn't it? — Thornton Wilder · 1938Drama (play)1 quote
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go, doesn't it? — Thornton Wilder · 1938Folk rock1 quote
Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears,
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain. — Creedence Clearwater Revival · 1970Food writing1 quote
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. — M.F.K. Fisher · 1949Great American songbook1 quote
Look for the silver lining
Whene'er a cloud
Appears in the blue. — Buddy DeSylva · 1920Historical literature1 quote
We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the priniples and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribbly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. — Robert McNamara · 1995Political literature1 quote
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez · 1967Road movie1 quote
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. — Lester Bangs · 2000Science fiction1 quote
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. — Ray Bradbury · 1950TED Talk1 quote
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes-including you. — Anne Lamott · 2017War1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969War (film)1 quote
Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969