Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have never believed in the impossible.
-
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
-
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
-
Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
-
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
-
I want to love life.
-
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
-
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
-
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
-
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
-
Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
-
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
-
Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
-
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
-
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
-
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
-
Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
-
Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
-
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
-
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
-
Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.
-
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
