David McCullough Quotes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.David McCullough
Quotes to Explore
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
Rachel True -
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
J. D. Vance -
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
Rand Paul -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia -
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Yami Gautam -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon -
I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
Rafael Nadal -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
Victoria Justice
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My best friend is my husband.
Samantha Bond -
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Quentin Tarantino -
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Barton Gellman -
There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Laura Benanti -
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon
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Sense of wrongs forget to treasure- Brethren, live in perfect love!In the starry realms above,God will mete as we may measure.
Friedrich Schiller -
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out -
History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
Barack Obama -
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
Anne Graham Lotz -
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough