John C. Calhoun Quotes

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WisdomWarEasyWillMoreRights

Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.

Michael Bisping

SportsFightingYouCompetingThan

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

Steve Garvey

DayGuyGoingAbleHappiestAround

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

Roger Angell

GreatThingsDifferentGreat Thing

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.

Roop Durgapal

TimeTravelGameMoviesTime Travel

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

Romola Garai

WomenChildrenYouLateTransition

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

Romelu Lukaku

YearCareerDownGoTopImprove

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Russel Honore

WorkTrustTeamworkTeamSpeedYou

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

Lucy Liu

WomenTogetherFightSwordWearWho

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

HistoryTimePerspectiveDayMatter

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

Ali Khamenei

PeopleBelieveSeriouslyPhilippines

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

William J. Clinton

HatePartyNowWayNeverRight

When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.

Princess Eugenie of York

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