John Foster Dulles Quotes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959

Topics

SuccessToughProblemYearYouSame

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

Melissa Etheridge

DaySocietyThoughtNowMindsRight

There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

Michael Hastings

HistoryLeapAwarenessSurveillance

I felt really happy to be able to film together with Korea's most beautiful actress. Everyone thinks it's because of her outward appearance that Song Hye-kyo became famous, but after working together, I realized her inner heart and personality are also good. Moreover, she has lots of acting experience, and I actually did learn a lot from her.

Song Joong-ki

GoodHeartBeautifulWorking Together

I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.

Louise Nurding

LoveChildrenAppreciateLearnBack

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

Juan Vargas

WorkGoodPoliticsMeGood Things

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PositiveHopeSilenceFeelLook

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Jorge Luis Borges

MeasureOthersHimPlannedAsking

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

Diego Luna

TimeListeningPinkFirst TimeFirst

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson

ImportantMoreMustThanThing

No man can discover his own talents.

Brendan Behan

ManTalentsOwnDiscoverHis

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

GodHopeMenSufferingBelieveMay

We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior contributed to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Sheldon Whitehouse

ServiceInfluenceManagementPowerful

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