Joel Barlow Quotes
But grant to kings and courts their ancient play, Recall their splendour and revive their sway; Can all your cant and all your cries persuade One power to join you in your wild crusade? In vain ye search to earth's remotest end; No court can aid you, and no king defend.Joel Barlow
Quotes to Explore
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
Abby Wambach -
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi -
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
Yo-Yo Ma
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
Dan Fogelman -
Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
Jack Schwartz -
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Harriet Martineau -
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
Barry Eisler -
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
But grant to kings and courts their ancient play, Recall their splendour and revive their sway; Can all your cant and all your cries persuade One power to join you in your wild crusade? In vain ye search to earth's remotest end; No court can aid you, and no king defend.
Joel Barlow