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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969

Topics

Future History Man Wise Brave Wait

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Work Adversity Best Flying More Fur

'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.

Family Father God Journey Grief

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

Mother Memories Children Great You

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Ambition Looking End You Look Ahead

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Movies See Seen Where Well Matrix

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

Service Culture Will Secret Outside

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the refrigerator has ever crossed their mind.

Great Mind American Cleaning Want

I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare kind of thing to have that level of wisdom. And his lyrics are just astounding; everything in life is inside his lyrics.

Life Love Wisdom Me Think Artist

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

Monica Bellucci

Work Beauty Youth Evil You Born

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Ludwig von Mises

Attitude War Mind Conquer Nothing

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Name America United United States

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Mariella Frostrup

Time Purpose Yourself Waiting Find

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