If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
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GARY F EVANS... If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b...
BABYFACE Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have...
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ANDY ROONEY I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ...
JOYCE MEYER He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into...
EVELYN FOX You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's ...
PATRICK WARBURTON Let me just tell you, it's a kick in the pants.
RICK SEARFOSS Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your com...
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JOHN MADDEN This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be t...
BRUCE BABBITT For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of...
RON FOURNIER You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't thin...
ED BALLS People say that if you want to play soccer in college you have to play for us, all we do is steer ki...
CASEY KORKUS When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and troub...
BOB BEAMON If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
BOB HOPE If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're payi...
TROY CARTER If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
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ERIC TOPOL April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant....
ED HELMS Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you
are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. ...
GIL SCOTT-HERON I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you have a party and someone injures themselves in your apartment, they could also sue you for th...
CAROLYN GORMAN I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Se...
PAUL KANE If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
BILL GATES I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know...
HAZEL SCOTT It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
BALTASAR GRACIAN All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a dist...
ALANA STEWART If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
IMRAN KHAN One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a ga...
YOUNG THUG Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat m...
ROB SHEFFIELD If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show...
GABRIEL HEATTER The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch yo...
ALBERT BROOKS Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do somet...
DANIEL O'BRIEN Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not me...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're wait...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn...
UGO BETTI If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
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DALE ARCHER Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ...
HILARY MANTEL Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON If it wasn't for life, I wouldn't have you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have mad...
SALAR KAMANGAR Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government w...
CAL THOMAS The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that reall...
JAMIE CULLUM If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMET FOX If you could only love enough, you could be the most
powerful person in the world.
EMMETT FOX If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world
EMMET FOX People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling ...
DREW BUSBY The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. Wh...
SIDNEY CROSBY If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you w...
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MIKE GALLAGHER You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't...
DALTON MCGUINTY An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in yo...
JAMES LOVELOCK If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don...
JEAN CHAREST If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am toda...
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DAVID OGILVY You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
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DANA DELANY Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves wh...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am a part of everything that I have read.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and sel...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Believe you can and you're halfway there.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies o...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Put out the light.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can with what you have where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT