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Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad. — A. J. McLean

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. — Harry S. Truman

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. — Lyndon B. Johnson

God is no stranger to strangers or to strange people. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot grow if you are not Thinking — Andrea L'Artiste

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed. — Harry Truman

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.. — Iyanla Vanzant

Give up grasping and see things as they are. THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA — Lama Surya Das

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job. — Dean Acheson

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. — Harry S. Truman

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S. Truman

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. — Harry S. Truman

In the beginning was the Word.
In the end ... past honor, past life, past caring ...
In the end will be the Word. — Dan Simmons

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. — Harry S. Truman

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable. — David Harsanyi

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. — Harry Truman

A President cannot always be popular. — Harry Truman

We support President Truman's civil rights program. — Eugenie Anderson

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. — Harry S. Truman

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut. — Roald Dahl

The teachers of our law, and to propose
What might improve my knowledge or their own. — John Milton

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. — Clifton Daniel

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything. — Harry S. Truman

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. — Paul Hoffman

It sure is hell to be president. — Harry S. Truman

Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate — Noam Chomsky

I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then. — Deb Caletti

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. — Harry S. Truman

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it! — Harry S. Truman

I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job. — Harry S. Truman

... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts. — John Tyndall