Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Negative energy is wasteful.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting was a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

In those days it was very nice to have a President who clearly spoke the English language.

Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting, a justifiable means of self-defense. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected. To succeed in a plot was to have a shrewd head, to divine a plot a still shrewder; but to try to provide against having to do either was to break up your party and to be afraid of your adversaries.

Language, especially in this country is a daily plebiscite.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.

Don't waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.