Dallek Office Quotes

#1. From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

Robert Dallek

#2. The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.

Bram Stoker

#3. Me: fine. u ever want 2 sleep w/someone u really dont like? Everett: you mean like a republican?

Avon Gale

#4. The gospel at Christmas is: Christ has trampled this enemy underfoot at the cross. So for everyone who trusts in him, their sins are cast into the depths of the sea.

John Piper

#5. I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.

Antony Starr

#6. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Tracy Kidder

#7. If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.

Pope Pius IX

#8. William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.

Robert Dallek

#9. Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

Robert Dallek

#10. At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office.

Robert Dallek

#11. I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

Pat Metheny

#12. Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.

Mary Balogh

#13. It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

Neal Shusterman

#14. I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Chris Carmack