Dean Gooderham Acheson Famous Quotes
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Gooderham Acheson Quotations
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
Louis D Brandeis
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
W C Sellar
"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."
Sir George Savile
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
H Jackson Browne
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
"Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity."
Pope John Paul II
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Friedrich Nietzsche
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson