Best Tr Quotes

#1. I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.

Barbara Lieberman

#3. Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy ...
(tr Benjamin Sher)

Leo Tolstoy

#4. asked Mom why they couldn't think up better street names than numbers and letters. She said everyone in Washington, D.C. had more important things to do. There wasn't enough time for street names.

TR Dillon

#5. These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those who have eyes to see, these flakes of fire are embedded in the holy scriptures. There these tr.

Neal A. Maxwell

#6. As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Hilary Mantel

#7. Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

Erich Fromm

#8. I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)

Plato

#9. Only TR openly declared his love for the job. "Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did," he boasted, and by all evidence that was so. "While president I have been president emphatically," he said. It

David McCullough

#10. And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you.

Rachel Higginson

#12. TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

David Pietrusza

#13. Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

Marshall McLuhan

#14. Do you think we would become a better civilization if we all took acid? TR: Oh, absolutely. I think that LSD is the genie in the bottle of the world.

Mara Altman

#15. Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)

Stanislaw Lem

#16. Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

John Taliaferro

#17. I don't want to tell Gov. Brewer what to do; she can do what's best for her state.

Rick Scott

#18. If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

Nancy Lopez

#19. Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

Michel De Montaigne

#20. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Don't try to beat the goalkeeper ... Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

Steven Gerrard