Biography Quote by Evan Thomas Download Open image ““Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy”” — Evan Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biography Fear History
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“Up to then there had been something of a gentleman’s agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
“No one conquers fear easily, Robert. It takes a brave heart to win great battles.” — Peter Bunzl Copy Share Image
“The 1930s, Kennedy said, 'taught us a clear lesson; aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the book’s greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“I'd learned something important about politics Kennedy-style: The cause was everything. Win or lose, spend yourself completely, leave nothing on the table, not even… — Joe Trippi Copy Share Image
“The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.” — The Vampire Diaries Copy Share Image
“Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.” — Cathie Pelletier Copy Share Image
“To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.” — Michelle Harrison Copy Share Image
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
The media, I think, wants Kerry to win.... And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards ... I'm talking about the establishment… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is true that it then presupposes that the executive should not habitually be insane!”5” — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset. — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express… — Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard;… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image