Taliaferro Quotes

#1. I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

John Taliaferro

#2. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

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#3. It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.

Andre Agassi

#4. I'm starting to feel a little like I might fly away. Like everyone else has solid lives, and I'm just a particle, passing through.

Amy McNamara

#5. My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

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#6. It's just ... Hardy was always the one I was supposed to end up with. He was everything I dreamed of and wanted. But damn it, why did he have to show up when I thought I'd finally gotten over him?

Lisa Kleypas

#7. In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

John Taliaferro

#8. John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

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#9. I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky ... my dad had one when he was younger.

Joe Dempsie

#10. William Nelson Cromwell. Whether Beers went to the United

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#11. If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

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#12. Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

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

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#14. When you love something, you don't see its flaws.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

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#16. Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

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#17. He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.

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#18. John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

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#19. Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

Clifton Adams

#20. The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

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#21. Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged

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#22. The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace

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#23. He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

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#24. It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

#25. He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

John Taliaferro

#26. The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

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#27. When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

John Taliaferro