Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

Toussaint Louverture

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• Necessary
• Carrying

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Teach

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • Fact
  • Glass

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Islam
  • Recognition

• If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Justice
  • New
  • Environmental

• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Situation
  • Comfortable
  • Room

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I like the scene in the first 'Scream' movie where Sidney gets up, and dusk is falling, and she's looking out at the hills of Santa Rosa, there where it was filmed, and that's where you sort of hear her theme being played out. I always liked that moment because, to me, it became more than just a horror movie.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Up
  • She
  • Movie

• There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Belief
  • Confirmed
  • Vital Connection

• Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Teach

• Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Arms
  • Compromise

• I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Home

• I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • War
  • Necessary
  • Carrying