Daniel Webster Quotes

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Daniel Webster

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• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Harder

• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Excellent
  • McDonald

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• Nothing is easy, and as far as my modelling career goes, the path to the top has been long and difficult, but that's what makes it special. I always look back to remind myself where I've come from.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Long
  • Career
  • Myself

• If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dream

• Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Day

• All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Help
  • Information

• Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Heart
  • May
  • Politics

• There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Support
  • Independent

• I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Never
  • English
  • Really

• I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night - and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • House
  • Night

• Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Money
  • Jealousy

• Foreign investors did not build South Korea - South Koreans developed their country; the Germans built their economy, an economy that was once in ruins. The Germans suffered a lot but now they are the best.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Country

• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Friends

• The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Time
  • Adoption

• It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Moving

• The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Power
  • Success

• We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dog

• When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

  

  Daniel Webster