William Branch Giles Quotes
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
-
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
-
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
-
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
-
When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
-
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
-
I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
-
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-
I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
-
When I think of something that really is me, that I'm proud of, is honestly, I would have to say, I've never sold my soul along the way... All those things, you're selling your soul, and I don't think I have.
-
Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door
-
Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
-
When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
-
This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
-
I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.
-
To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
-
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
-
One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.
-
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
-
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
-
Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.
-
I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
-
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
