John C. Calhoun Quotes

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

John C. Calhoun

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• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Artist
  • Because
  • Making

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Work
  • Will
  • Well

• I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Fun
  • Hate
  • Successful

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Women
  • Understand

• Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents.

  

  John Adams
  • Christian

• We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • War
  • Party

• While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

  

  Rihanna
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind I ever heard.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Mother

• We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work

• I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Done
  • Picture

• Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Die

• I do not see scales as abstract.

  

  James Galway

• People think you can find a mentor by walking up to somebody and saying, 'Hey, be my mentor,' or by sending an e-mail to someone you've never e-mailed before and saying, 'Hey, I want you to mentor me.' But, mentorship really happens in rooms that you're actually in.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • People
  • Up
  • Walking

• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Law

• Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Long
  • Everything
  • Responsible

• I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

  

  Harry Golden
  • Darkness
  • Lower East Side
  • Washington Square

• What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Women
  • Children
  • Silly

• Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

  

  John C. Calhoun