George Canning Quotes

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Live
  • Walking
  • Hill

• Roma come before everything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Everything
  • Come
  • Before

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Family
  • Restaurant
  • Miami

• Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Doctor

• I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Agenda

• The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Said
  • Slavery

• People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Short
  • Victim

• 'A king has soldiers, servants, messengers, lieutenants. He governs through his servants. Where are the servants of this-Anti-king?''In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• ...any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Important

• His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Father
  • Green
  • Blue

• Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.

  

  Angelica Ross
  • Life
  • Cost
  • Trans

• When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

  

  Edward Reynolds
  • Prayers
  • Strongest

• I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

  

  Joe E. Lewis

• The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

  

  China Chow
  • Airplane

• In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

  

  George Canning