John C. Calhoun Quotes

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850

Topics

TimeConflictRevolutionStrong

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

Jennifer Egan

WritingAmericaYouFastKnowMove

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

LifeDeathBecomeGoingStillDies

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Shirley Knight

SuccessFocusedHollywoodDollarOwn

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

Rob Portman

FreedomHealthPeopleCareImportant

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Robin Marantz Henig

WordsLanguageMeaningDeception

For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

Mary Pilon

MoneyLieCheatingProfessionalWhy

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

Mike Myers

LoveCharacterDayJoyPeopleEnjoy

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

Luke Evans

FamilyChildhoodMountainsHoliday

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

WomanManStrongerDifferenceMay

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Dolly Wells

MeYouGoSayActorTry

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

Brock Lesnar

GameCareerTop

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Armando Iannucci

WorkCharacterWordsLunchDinner

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