Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Charles Caleb Colton

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• I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Sports
  • Training
  • Puppies

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Grammar

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Desire

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • America
  • Dark
  • Cooking

• The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I get the fantasy league comment a couple of times a series ... that's pretty cool. They might be rooting for the other team, but if I do well it helps them out. It's kind of cool.

  

  Garrett Atkins
  • Couple
  • Helping
  • Fantasy

• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Home
  • Fun

• I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Love Is
  • Convinced

• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Power
  • Wise