William Fullbright Famous Quotes
"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
"We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless."
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright Quotations
"Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day."
Godfather The
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W C Fields
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Eckhart Tolle
In Lebanon there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.
Ariel Sharon
"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon I
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Pogo
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
Sylvia Plath
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
Bill Lee
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon