William Gilmore Simms Quotes
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
-
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
-
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
-
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
-
My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
-
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
-
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
-
Discipline is not a nasty word.
-
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
-
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
-
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
-
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
-
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
-
My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
-
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
-
There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
-
The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
-
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
-
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.
-
We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
-
I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
-
If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
-
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
-
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
