William H. Prescott Quotes

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

William H. Prescott

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forever

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• I feel good. I think everything went good.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Try
  • Champions

• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Right
  • Stability

• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Right

• I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• Whatever we areWe belong togetherWherever we areWe will find each otherWhoever we areWe areForever one.

  

  Leonard Nimoy

• I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Cooking

• Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Way
  • Believing
  • Illusions

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Food

• The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • Song
  • Forgotten
  • Warrior