Darman Quotes

#1. If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#2. We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Karen Traviss

#3. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.

Jonathan Darman

#4. It takes time to believe again

Vikki Wakefield

#5. But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.

Jonathan Darman

#6. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Richard Darman

#7. amassed at Wenden and, unless they

Peter Darman

#8. one of the council, a dour-looking man with a

Peter Darman

#9. I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Joel Edgerton

#10. I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

Richard Darman

#11. It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!

Richard Darman

#12. I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

Paul Auster

#13. Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,

Walt Whitman

#14. I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

Richard Darman

#15. Guadalcanal U.S. 1,600 killed, 4,200 wounded.

Peter Darman

#16. He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.

Richard Darman

#17. You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Wayne Dyer

#18. It was just like him to convince people he didn't want something until he was sure he was going to get it.

Jonathan Darman

#19. Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Jonathan Darman

#20. To really make it look like Santa came, I put reindeer poop on the roof. It's just so cold up there with my pants down.

Dana Gould

#21. Lithuanians and it would take more than

Peter Darman

#22. Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.

Mavis Gallant

#23. Thaddeus was organising the positioning of the

Peter Darman

#24. For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Jonathan Darman

#25. the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall,

Peter Darman

#26. He smiled. 'They do not follow the

Peter Darman

#27. The meaning of a photo lies in the excitement and joy you feel when taking it.

Marie Kondo