Translated By Coleman Barks Quotes

#1. Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

Helen Thomas

#2. A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Laura Schlessinger

#3. A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her.

Hanna Martine

#4. I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

Genevieve Gorder

#5. Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

#6. To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Adolf Hitler

#7. My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

Questlove

#8. People around us are two types Friends and Frenemies,Adapt with the first type and pray for the second.

Mohammed Sekouty

#9. I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Larry Bird

#10. I try to enjoy what I do, and every moment of the life that I have is a blessing. What else can you do but to be happy and try to bring that joy to the other people around - especially in the tournaments. Everybody has bad days. I'm not always funny or laughing.

Novak Djokovic

#11. If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Rumi

#13. The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Victor Hugo

#14. Our country does not guarantee you success
but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Deneen Borelli

#15. Then we have to pray for the light of the Holy Spirit to shine in people's lives

Sunday Adelaja

#16. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

Steve Aoki