Charles G. Dawes (Charles Gates Dawes) Quotes

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

Charles G. Dawes

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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Just
  • News
  • Boring

• I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Love
  • Father
  • Night

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • College
  • Never

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • You
  • Ups And Downs

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Action

• It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • People
  • Interesting

• My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Happy
  • Son
  • Matter

• If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Think
  • Play
  • Write

• Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Moving

• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Soul
  • Plant
  • Form