I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.


Harry S Truman

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I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
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Mr. Gore, I knew Harry Truman, ... I ran against Harry Truman. And Mr. Gore, you are no Harry Truman...
STROM THURMOND
I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO
Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? No...
JOAN RIVERS
They told me the anesthetic was for the battlefield. It was hell.
CHARLES JENKINS
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
GLENN MILLER
I used to want to be a cheerleader,” I told them. “Before I decided to just go to hell.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
DANNY AIELLO
Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.
DAVID PIETRUSZA
What the hell, Cade? You knew, and you never thought . . . ‘Hey, maybe I should tell my
broth...
MAISEY YATES
When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN
That was a hell of a basketball game, for sure. Our team did everything tonight that I asked of them...
STEW MORRILL
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
EARL WARREN
I was in a place I had never visited before and I didn’t want to ever visit again.
I was in h...
J.K. ELLEM
They were fouling the hell out of me all game and we were down by 30. I was just frustrated. We didn...
JOEL DIETERICH
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had so...
CARL BARKS
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AMY DUPONT
I didn't mind because it let me run the business, and I thought I was doing a hell of a job.
CLAUDE CRANSTON
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' ...
CARL BARKS
I hope those guys burn in hell for what they did.
DAVID GROSSBERG
They earned it. It was not a gift. I think it's good. I'm happy for them. I'm not just happy for the...
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I put the team through a lot of hell ever since I've been with them but they never gave up on me, .....
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JACK HANLEY
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN
He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years un...
HAROLD ICKES
I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
I thought our kids gave them a hell of a game. We had them at halftime, but a lot of little things h...
DEBBIE COFFMAN
The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.
PETER KREEFT
I used to tell my history students that while he was a Democrat, I admired Harry Truman because he t...
PHIL CRANE
It was a bastion for men, and some of them thought, 'Hell this is our place.' But it had to change.
HERMAN BERGHOFF
I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
LANA WOOD
ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?
P.C. CAST
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
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No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate g...
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I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never...
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AUDREY HEPBURN
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys ...
PEE WEE REESE
But Truman saved the day. He said, 'It's OK, son, so do I,' ... My claim to fame - I went to the bat...
EVAN BAYH
People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful w...
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All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w...
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Their week was completely nuts. You could have teams going, 'I don't know what the hell to do now.' ...
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I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would ...
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I never will suggest you to drink energy drinks, they taste like hell!
DEYTH BANGER
Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing ...
TUCKER MAX
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JENNIFER ANISTON
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat...
CLARENCE DARROW
Hell, we never realized it would grow into this. I was just a kid that had a good work ethic, along ...
DUNCAN TAYLOR
Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut...
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I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told th...
FRANK NORRIS
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
DR. SEUSS
Hell no, I'm not glad to see them. They should have been here days ago. I ain't glad to see 'em. I'l...
MICHAEL LEVY
I guess that's why they call it Hell.
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[It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine.] You weren't meant to eat meat ...
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JANICE BIGGERS
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coatta...
CLARENCE DARROW
I said it was going to be hell or high-water the first time and I'm saying it again ... I will go th...
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I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You ...
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organizations should learn to play by the rules, if they don't someone will find the truth, and all ...
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What do you mean love is not for sale? Then what the hell did I just buy? And why is it grandma-shap...
JAROD KINTZ
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
CLARENCE DARROW
I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like ...
RUPAUL
This was hell and I was its fury.
ILONA ANDREWS
Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад...
ELIF SHAFAK
I'm providing people an opportunity to get out of hell, and I was willing to take them anywhere they...
DAVID PEREZ
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-t...
CLARENCE DARROW
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-t...
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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
SYLVIA PLATH
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. FIELDS
I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had th...
AUDRE LORDE
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good ...
RONNIE SHAKES
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell goo...
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I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Hell is truth seen too late.
THOMAS HOBBES
Hell is truth known too late.
J.C. RYLE
[Has he been examined by a doctor?] I stay away from them, ... Hell, they might put me on IR. You ne...
DENNIS ERICKSON
Give 'em hell, darlin
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
First couple of pitches, it all came back to me, line drives up the gaps. Then I thought, 'What the ...
DON MATTINGLY
What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
ADAM FERRARA
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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We'll be ready for them tomorrow (Sunday)...we're going to give 'em hell.
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I never thought to question the lack of truth until it had been placed in front of me. Why did the k...
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious futur...
HARRY S TRUMAN
To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little pl...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remai...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Tita...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was already taken.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
HARRY S TRUMAN
Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back
HARRY S TRUMAN
There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
HARRY S TRUMAN
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both si...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. [We] se...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eig...
HARRY S TRUMAN
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
The 'C' students run the world.
HARRY S TRUMAN
When a leader is in the Democratic party he's a boss; when he's in the Republican party he's a leade...
HARRY S TRUMAN
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -...
HARRY S TRUMAN
People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo
HARRY S TRUMAN
I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a s...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one
HARRY S TRUMAN
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same tim...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
HARRY S TRUMAN
That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of...
HARRY S TRUMAN
Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S TRUMAN
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representati...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog
HARRY S TRUMAN
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
HARRY S TRUMAN
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it
HARRY S TRUMAN
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever a...
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
HARRY S TRUMAN
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't...
HARRY S TRUMAN
I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America.
HARRY S TRUMAN
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a ...
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