Francis Parkman Quotes
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Francis Parkman
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
Omari Hardwick
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles
Happiness is an inside job.
Edd Byrnes
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
Pat Gillick
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
Louis Sachar
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
Elliott Abrams
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
Benjamin Cardozo
The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.
Alexandre Vinet
Lightly from fair to fair he flew,And loved to plead, lament, and sue;Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Walter Scott
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Francis Parkman
