Theodore Ruzvelt Quotes & Sayings

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. — Jonathan Kozol

So a while back I spent a night in jail. Now, as for exactly what landed me there, I'd be so delighted to never have to go into any of the details regarding that. Besides, other people's theories are so much more exotic and exciting than the reality. I've heard everything from 'attempted terrorism' to 'indecent public condescension. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. — Barbara Kruger

The Gzilt were a people favoured by Fate, by the Universe itself, as part of an ongoing thrust towards a glorious, transcendent providence; they represented the very tip of a mystical spear thrown by the past at the future, the shaft of that spear being formed by a multitude of earlier species which existed before them and kept on serially handing on the baton of destiny to the next, slightly more exceptional people ahead of them. — Iain M. Banks

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. — Placido Domingo

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have. — Buddy Rice

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out. — Joel Edgerton

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback. — Jeffrey Lurie

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. — James Madison

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder. — Rush Limbaugh

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions. — Henry George

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent. — Michael Caine