Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Emily James Smith Putnam

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• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • New

• Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

  

  Mahavira
  • Laws
  • Infinite
  • Modes

• When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Education
  • Control
  • Question

• A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Friends
  • Married
  • Pressure

• The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Man
  • Cost
  • Before

• Every country is under an imperative to deal with terrorism, including terrorism masquerading as freedom fighting,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Fighting

• Would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Future
  • Candidate
  • Superb

• A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Question
  • Reason
  • Stock

• I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Trust

• The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Mistake

• According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Body
  • Bible
  • Scripture

• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Common Sense
  • Kind of sense

• A reporter is no better than his source of information.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Information
  • Source
  • Reporters

• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Aircraft
  • Breathes
  • Red Army

• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Reason
  • Firm
  • Reins

• The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provides evidence that core geometrical knowledge is a universal constituent of the human mind.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Evidence

• Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Labour
  • Offended
  • Gracious

• As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Evidence
  • Survives
  • Predominance