John C. Calhoun Quotes

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

John C. Calhoun

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Time
  • Great

• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

  

  Christopher McCandless
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.

  

  Beth Grant
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Different
  • Lost

• War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Great
  • May
  • War