William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
Kate Bosworth
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
Lara St. John
Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
Dan Buettner
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Samuel Lover
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.
Tony Kushner
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
Barack Obama
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander
I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
Carol Moseley Braun
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
