William Gilmore Simms Quotes

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

William Gilmore Simms

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business
  • You
  • Advertising

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• 'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Environment
  • Stressful
  • SNL

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Media

• The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Sad

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Years
  • Size

• I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

  

  John Travolta
  • True
  • Way
  • Laughing

• What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Help
  • Me

• You must not grieve so heavily. Better are good than evil omens. though I am weak and small, Spumed with Dylan's wave, I shall be better for you Than three hundred shares of salmon.

  

  Taliesin
  • Good
  • Small
  • Evil

• The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Men
  • May
  • Age

• We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Wish
  • Failing
  • Encounters