Gerrit Smith Quotes

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Gerrit Smith

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• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Being

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Eating
  • Common Sense

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Disney
  • Grew
  • Identify

• You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Great
  • House

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• Well, its not that bad. I thought she was going to show me a picture of uhhhh...an eagle on her ass or something.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Bad
  • Picture

• Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Path

• What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Your Dollar is your only Word,The wrath of it your only fear.You build it altars tall enoughTo make you see, but your are blind;You cannot leave it long enoughTo look before you or behind.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Long
  • Fear

• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Small
  • Wall
  • Fly

• If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

  

  Jamie Bell

• Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Interesting

• Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

  

  Negash Ali
  • Music
  • Share
  • Express

• The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • War
  • Taken

• I will not say but that I eyed the assembly in a spirit similar to that in which William the Conqueror eyed England on his visit to Edward the Confessor, as the region of his future domain. Oh, vanity!

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Future

• I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Winning

• True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • War
  • Peace
  • Slavery