Wendell Phillips Quotes

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips

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• I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Mountains

• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Enough
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Want
  • Community
  • City

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Help
  • Training

• For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

  

  John Cho
  • Career
  • Interesting

• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Knowing

• Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Night

• As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Red

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Business
  • Today
  • Fear