Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
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Related Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way tow... THOMAS MALLON Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans... BERNIE SANDERS At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing bal... CHARLIE PIERCE He had already become very popular in the school with his classmates and made many friends. GORDON HIGGINS It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the ... CHUCK TODD I think I learned something more about that history of mine, ... There's a, you know, young kid who ... ANTHONY SWOFFORD It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happines... LOUISE PENNY For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Phil... BIBLE I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an... ED HARRIS All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become ... DAVE VAN HORNE This bump on his shoulder had become malignant. DAVID BLUEFIELD First, the department did not participate in the early February press conference when Ed Smart and h... LEE BENSON First, the department did not participate in the early February press conference when Ed Smart and h... LEE BENSON Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fo... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fo... SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the... GURU NANAK Neither one of them had the decency to come into his office, after they had been running into the of... ED WARD Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the m... ELIZABETH GOUDGE He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his... LILLIAN HANSEN The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago. THOMAS HOOD The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago THOMAS HOOD In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. GEORGE ELIOT There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living ... DANNY MORRISON The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards th... VICTOR HUGO And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called to... BIBLE More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cut... MARK TWAIN There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it i... TERRY PRATCHETT The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his fir... CHARLES L. GRANT Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding blac... CHRISTINA ENGELA When he became coach, the national media was here for his first press conference, and it has continu... GERALD MYERS Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ... CHARLES GORE I would say he's one of the tops. We've had some really good backs come through here. Since I've bee... CRAIG RIGSBEE Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS More than most flacks, he understood the press. He wasn't fearful or intimidated by them. He knew yo... GEORGE SKELTON He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountain... PAULO COELHO He had gotten into a couple fights, and one time he and his friends took baseball bats to some kids. ASHLEY MARTIN Less than a week before his death, Andrew requested that some of his friends donate blood; he had be... DAVID MULLALY If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly e... ERIC LIU The King has become a failure in his mission for which he had assumed power. MAHESH ACHARYA My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had ann... LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its ha... ANDREW CARNEGIE He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette ... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS A remarkably large number of Renaissance artists were illegitimate, including Alberti and Ghiberti. ... ÉRIC WEINER Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had not... JOYCE MAYNARD Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet ... JEROME CHARYN Some of them had been there two or three days. Some of them had not eaten in six days. CHERYL HICKMAN At school I had only admirers; I had no friends. V. S. NAIPAUL Dimitri had a very good November tour. He left the squad because of his injury but he is fit again a... BERNARD LAPORTE I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I ... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and r... CASSANDRA CLARE Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always foll... JIM SENSENBRENNER When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to r... IAN MCEWAN It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his... LEON TROTSKY A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. ... THURSTON CLARKE In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel... NIGEL HAMILTON He thought it was a bit rich of Uncle Vernon to call anyone “dumpy,” when his own son, Dudley, h... J.K. ROWLING Luckily, we've had an outpouring of those who have called and said they'd be happy to provide housin... BETH RICHARDSON When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed ... WINSTON CHURCHILL And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... HANYA YANAGIHARA Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving ... BONNIE DEE He (White) had a tough first inning, but was strong the rest of the way. He was getting his curve ba... GLENN LINCOLN He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his a... TIM LAHAYE His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoe... MICHAEL CRICHTON They had a totally unexpected number, and the stock just flew into the stratosphere. Since November,... BUD LEEDOM Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because... DEAN KOONTZ Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfu... LAUREN KATE You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be diff... SHERWIN B. NULAND She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed-... O. HENRY The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows lik... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN We once had a group of five snowboarders from England book a cat for the day. The most experienced o... DAVE RINTALA Things we have talked about for three months, he has been able to put into play. He has had a challe... CLINT HURDLE When he passed by me, he had some of the white rubbed over the plates as altered buyer's plates. I n... KRISTINA HILL Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It&... THOMAS J. STANLEY He had more velocity on his fastball, his changeup was slower, and he had sharper breaking stuff, ..... TODD PRATT His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. WILLIAM SHENSTONE We wanted to finish at .500 and we did. We had a good comeback. Honestly, they were in control most ... CARLOS BOOZER It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... HENRY JAMES He no doubt on occasions had to fulfil his role as a leader and if one of his friends had been humil... RICHARD HORWELL He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical. LES DAWSON He had a monster game. Every time I looked he had his hands on the ball. He's the hardest-working ki... ERIC THOMAS They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had... BIANCA WALKER On the other hand, it let Tony Stewart move into new prominence and establish his name. He has proba... HUMPY WHEELER A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rat... FRANK HERBERT Jacobson had his best game of the year and I was most encouraged by his defense. GREG MASON God is a bit more liberal than they anticipated. When he sends them back, they become more liberal �... ELLEN HUANG George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be eit... ALAN GOLDSHER I am ready and Craig is ready. I have been CEO for 11 years. Intel has been around 30 years. I'm the... ANDREW GROVE I am ready and Craig is ready, ... I have been CEO for 11 years. Intel has been around 30 years. I'm... ANDREW GROVE Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had a career. His name was Ike. MAMIE EISENHOWER The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and man... ZEBULON PIKE Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the... WALTER M. MILLER JR. Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou... EDITH WHARTON His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, ... EDITH WHARTON
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr... THEODORE ROOSEVELT There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. THEODORE ROETHKE Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc... THEODORE PARKER The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born... THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap. THEODORE STURGEON Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by... THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A... THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif... THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin. THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he... THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer... THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring. THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they k... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his... THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist... THEODORE ROOSEVELT