John C. Calhoun Quotes

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterPowerI AmSpaceBlessed

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

Joe Gebbia

ArtNever ForgetForgetNeverFirst

I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

Jesse Williams

MorningDayLiePeopleMeDrive

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

John Landis

InterestingPicturesNowHorrorOnly

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.

Robert Greenwald

HeartPeopleBelieveReachProblem

I have a short attention span.

Tony Scott

ShortAttentionAttention SpanSpan

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Ron Wyden

FamilyHealthVisionFireSafety

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis D. Brandeis

HistoryWorldImpossibleDoingWorth

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

Judge Reinhold

GoodPeopleStoryYouWillMatter

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Johnny Weir

GoodFeelArtistAthleteMoreLike

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

Brian K. Vaughan

JourneyNeverAbandonedMy Journey

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

EducationRandomGameFactsBetter

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

Bow Wow

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