John Sterling Quotes

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

John Sterling

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• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• What it has done is reaffirm to us we are running the campaign the right way. Grassroots campaigns win elections. That is what we have done and what we will continue to do.

  

  Zack Space
  • Done
  • Way
  • Running

• I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Boys

• After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Society
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.

  

  Benito Juarez
  • Life
  • Country
  • Power

• Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Movies

• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • People
  • Power
  • Lit

• Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Persistence
  • Destination
  • Deviation

• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Passion
  • Mean
  • Christian

• You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Mad

• Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Destroy
  • Superstition
  • Piety

• The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Aggression
  • Impediment

• I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Describe
  • Idealism
  • Pragmatist

• The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opinion
  • Characters
  • Discovery

• Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their co-religionists rule these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.

  

  Benjamin H. Freedman
  • Government
  • United States
  • Reasons

• A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Husband
  • Lover
  • Monkeyshines

• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Crime
  • Fortune

• Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

  

  John Sterling
  • Commerce
  • Mistress
  • Winds