William Gilmore Simms Quotes

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

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• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
  • Another
  • Desperate

• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

  

  Hal David
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Everyone

• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • Children
  • Abundance

• I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Justice

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Exciting
  • Indian
  • Entrepreneurship

• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Fear

• I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Know
  • Wonderful
  • Going

• I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feel

• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Silence
  • Entertainment

• I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Future
  • Past
  • Energy

• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Rest

• Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Failing
  • Outsider
  • Indicate

• The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Air
  • Answers
  • Failing