Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Toussaint Louverture

• Future
• Attention
• Eyes
• Authority
• Citizens
• Families
• Disasters

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• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Gift

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Tired
  • Sick

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Writing

• I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Today
  • Change
  • End

• When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Free
  • Never

• A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'

  

  Yves Klein
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Text

• I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Hope

• No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Done

• Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • History
  • Science

• I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

  

  Jonathan Frakes
  • Life
  • Galaxy

• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Work
  • Music
  • Men

• Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• I think it's going to be awesome. I don't think there's any other way to put it. Emotions will be running high. All the guys in this clubhouse know what we have, and other people are starting to pay attention, so we'll just have to go out and prove it.

  

  Nick Swisher
  • Attention
  • Emotions
  • Prove

• I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Future
  • Attention
  • Eyes