George Frost Kennan Famous Quotes
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."
"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
George Frost Kennan Quotations
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk
Harry Morris Warner
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz
"I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn"
Alanis Morissette
To know and to act are one and the same.
Samurai Proverb
No sin is small.
Jeremy Taylor
Don't forget to love yourself.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Danish proverb