Peter Stuyvesant Quotes

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Peter Stuyvesant

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• Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Loved

• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hear
  • Side
  • Other

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Career
  • Deaf

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Violence

• All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • America
  • Waves

• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Together
  • Energy

• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Energy
  • Achievement
  • Nation

• Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  

  John Shirley
  • People
  • Nature

• I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Afterlife

• Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.

  

  David Shields
  • City
  • Religious

• I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

  

  James Nicoll

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant