John F. Kennedy Quotes

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John F. Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963

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In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Mary Douglas

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As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Diane Keaton

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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

Christine McVie

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In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

Christy Turlington

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I got to meet Colm Wilkinson once, and I was ecstatic.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Bono

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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

William Hepworth Thompson

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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Richard Russo

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Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Richard Engel

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