Daniel Webster Quotes

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Daniel Webster

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Always
  • Voice

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Really
  • Lucky
  • Superhero

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • News
  • Entrepreneur

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Chance
  • Comics
  • Forgotten Realms

• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • You
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Ambition

• Not just a benchmark in my career, but a benchmark in my life.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Life
  • Career
  • Benchmark

• Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

  

  David Deida
  • May
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Know
  • Mathematician

• When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Good
  • Money

• Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • May