David Dean Rusk Famous Quotes
We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.
"When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one."
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
David Dean Rusk Quotations
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
Jane Austen
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
"Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved--it is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world."
Cornelius Stam
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
Baltasar Gracian
Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity.
Bias
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me"
Marilyn Ferguson
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
Rabindranath Tagore
Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P Gardner