David Farragut Quotes

Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!

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• You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Time
  • You
  • Boyfriend

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Speeches

• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Passion

• I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Know
  • Need
  • Wait

• I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Free

• There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Want
  • Same
  • Teenagers

• Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Christmas

• Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Space

• We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Use

• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Giving

• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Remember
  • Stop
  • Spiritual

• We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Blame
  • Praise
  • Judgement

• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Silence

• Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!

  

  David Farragut
  • Speed
  • Ahead
  • Entering