Daniel Webster Quotes

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Daniel Webster

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• Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Complicated

• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Like
  • Clear
  • Bed

• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Digital

• The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Reason

• When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Dream

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Standpoint
  • Shake

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Victory

• I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Guts

• There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Different
  • Think
  • Need

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• For the robust, an error is information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Great
  • God
  • Church

• Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Freedom
  • Light

• Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

  

  Dave Obey
  • Job
  • Society

• Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Work
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Music
  • Real
  • Art

• My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot of other reporters I know: Human suffering is bad, and if reporting stories about it brings it to light and someone does something, that's part of the point of journalism. And it's a thin line between that and activism, and you have to be careful about that.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Political
  • Suffering
  • Journalism

• I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Technology

• What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

  

  Daniel Webster