Salmon P. Chase Quotes

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

Salmon P. Chase

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• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Democracy
  • Rules
  • Key

• Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Prove
  • Encouragement

• Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Child
  • Race
  • Passionate

• We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Trust
  • Mistakes
  • Strength

• An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Sentence

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Man
  • News
  • Viewers

• I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Trying
  • Mistakes
  • Worried

• Disneyland is a show.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Show
  • Disneyland

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Day
  • Suffering

• The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Happy
  • You
  • Chocolate

• I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Lucky

• People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Know
  • Find

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• The magic that you hear in tales and things was all based around the Celtic mythology of England, which is Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. I just drain from that source. I just drain everything. So the magic is there.

  

  Donovan
  • Magic

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Love
  • Hurt
  • Increase

• 'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Why
  • Crazy

• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Art
  • Space
  • Engineering

• At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  

  Peter Mullan

• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon P. Chase