Dan Webster Quotes

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

Dan Webster

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• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Find

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Building
  • Now

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Power
  • Man

• I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Energy
  • Place
  • Shooting

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Different
  • Man
  • Rest

• By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or deceitfulness of our understanding, and according to the simplicity or intricacy of the question.

  

  David Hume
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Look

• But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Beginning
  • Path
  • Moment

• We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Question
  • Honor