Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

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• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Women
  • American
  • Dream

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People

• The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Rules necessary for demonstrations. To prove all propositions, and to employ nothing for their proof but axioms fully evident of themselves, or propositions already demonstrated or admitted; Never to take advantage of the ambiguity of terms by failing mentally to substitute definitions that restrict or explain them.

  

  Blaise Pascal

• Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.

  

  Aeschylus

• He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Perfect
  • Style

• As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.

  

  Akon
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • She
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Real
  • Reading

• Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • World

• I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Work
  • Quality

• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • Son
  • Emotional

• I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Sad

• The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Waves

• It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

  

  Paul Watson
  • War

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Creative
  • Virtue

• Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Waves