Daniel Webster Quotes

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Daniel Webster

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• I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Feel
  • Realize
  • Inside

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Walking

• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
  • Rapper
  • Front

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Sports
  • New

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Weird
  • Loved
  • Cleaning

• Head coaching options are limited.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Head
  • Coaching
  • Limited

• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Courage

• In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Sun
  • Face

• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hip Hop

• My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • School
  • Study
  • Teacher

• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Common
  • Very
  • Cows

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • She
  • Wishes
  • Intercession

• I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • May
  • Today

• The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.

  

  Gary D. Schmidt
  • Beautiful
  • Running
  • Wonderful

• I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Wishes