Franklin Pierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
-
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
-
I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
-
I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
-
What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
-
I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
-
Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
-
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
-
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
-
A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
-
Panic is a horrible thing.
-
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
-
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
-
I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.
-
I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
-
Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
-
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
-
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
-
Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.
-
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
-
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
-
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
-
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
