William Howard Taft Quotes

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

William Howard Taft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930

Topics

EnthusiasmSometimesJudgmentCause

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Jerry Spinelli

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The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

Jenna Wortham

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In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

Meghan Daum

MotherMyselfExperienceSickYear

I couldn't identify just one, but there's numerous rule changes and points of emphasis that have reflected a change on the field almost immediately. It's hard to avoid the horse-collar tackle, for example, but the players understand why the rule is in there - because of the injury rate prior to us making that a personal foul.

Jeff Fisher

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One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

Michael Flanders

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The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Robert Anton Wilson

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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Rita Dove

ReadingThinkStrangersAliveYoung

At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentally prepared. I would be lying if I said it doesn't affect your performance. But the sooner you get over it, the better. So you discipline yourself. That is why fitness counts.

Mohammad Azharuddin

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

PersonNothingUpMuchCaseClears

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Anne Campbell

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I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

Alonzo Mourning

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