Daniel Webster Quotes

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

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• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
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• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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  • Colombia

• At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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  • Always
  • Hearing

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
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• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
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  • Kids
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• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • May
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• What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

  

  Gary Ross
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  • You
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• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Know
  • Health

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Together
  • Perfection
  • Exist

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Heart

• I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.

  

  Burn Gorman
  • People
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  • Hope

• We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Work

• Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.

  

  John Ridley
  • America
  • Color
  • Negativity

• If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

  

  R. A. Torrey
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  • Prayer

• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Great
  • Together
  • Earth