John C. Calhoun Quotes
I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.
John C. Calhoun
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
Edgar Wright
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
Kate Winslet
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
Pankaj Mishra
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
Warren Rudman
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
Charisma Carpenter
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
Patricia Polacco
There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.
Lewis Howes
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Odysseas Elytis
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.
John C. Calhoun
