Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Quotes to Explore
-
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
-
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
-
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
-
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
-
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
-
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
-
I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
-
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
-
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
-
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
-
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
-
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
-
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
-
A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
-
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
-
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
-
If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
-
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
-
I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you an energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.
-
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
