The best Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Restaurant bathroom doors should be identified with the words, "men" and "women". Silhouettes and cartoon drawings of sombreros, bowler hats, puffy skirts and pretty mouths do not provide enough information for drunks.

Hats Restaurants

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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

William McKinley

War

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

William McKinley

Hawaii

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

William McKinley

Philippines

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

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New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Courage Adventures Feet

I wanted to run away that day, but you can't run away from your own feet.

Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Character Self-Deception Feet

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

William Beaverbrook

England & Great Britain Hats

I think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!

Dakota Johnson

Hats

In Italy, you know you've found a truly authentic restaurant when they don't have an English menu. In India, it's when there are no utensils and you must eat with your hands.

Aziz Ansari

Italy India Restaurants

Dinner's a very intimate activity. It requires a level of connection and eye contact, that sex just doesn't. Call me old-fashioned, but I need to have sex with a girl at least three times before I'll even consider having dinner with her.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3

Sex Restaurants

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

Joe Biden - August 2024

2024

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

George W. Bush - September 2001

2001 September 11th

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Bill Clinton

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush

Wealth & Richness

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

USA Independence Day

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Gerald R. Ford

USA

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Richard Nixon

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Future Yesterday

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace Fighting

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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