John Lothrop Motley Quotes

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Work
  • Important
  • Single

• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I have a lot of Republican friends.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Friends
  • Republican
  • Lot

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Soul
  • Health

• The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

  

  Win Butler
  • Up
  • Music
  • Funny

• I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

  

  Cheyenne Jackson
  • People
  • Strong

• Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Believe

• And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

  

  Joe Miller
  • People

• The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • History