William H. Seward Quotes

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

William H. Seward

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reading

• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Why
  • Night

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Nature

• When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Words

• Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.

  

  Olaf Tyaransen
  • Real
  • She
  • Book

• The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed. Race hatred, violence, idolatries-they still flourish.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • People
  • Evil
  • Violence

• I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.

  

  Cilla Black
  • World
  • Great
  • Business

• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Political
  • Happiness
  • Security