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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not the critic that counts.
— Theodore Roosevelt
So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people.
— Roosevelt Sykes
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
— Theodore Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
— Winston S. Churchill
The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 — J.M. Carlisle
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 — J.M. Carlisle
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
— Patty Duke
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead
and to find no one there. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
and to find no one there. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston S. Churchill
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
— David K. E. Bruce
It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
— James Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt!
— Brad McKinniss
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
— Theodore Roosevelt
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.
— Michael Maloney
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed ... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "America's greatest contribution to the world is the summer camp." Anyone
— Susan Wiggs
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Man's desire to be remembered is colossal.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It's not the critic who counts.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You are only an extra in everyone else's play.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
— Gaylord Nelson
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
— Theodore Roosevelt
They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.
— John T. Flynn
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!" -Claire
— Diana Gabaldon
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
— Theodore Roosevelt
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat
— Theodore Roosevelt
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
— Hank Johnson
I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All the resources we need are in the mind.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
— Theodore Roosevelt
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
— Claudy Conn
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no have-to's, just choices
— Eleanor Roosevelt
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
— W. Averell Harriman
The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Dreams are a dime a dozen. it's their execution that counts
— Theodore Roosevelt
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.
— Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The light has gone out of my life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt