Theodore Harold White Famous Quotes
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
"Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment."
"History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not."
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform."
Theodore Harold White Quotations
"When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured."
English Proverb
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
Marquis de Sade
"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life."
Albert Pike
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Samuel Butler
America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
Ronald Reagan
"The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be."
Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--"
Emily Dickinson
"No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee."
John Donne