John Paul Jones Quotes

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 6, 1747 - July 18, 1792

Topics

NatureLawWinChanceWillRisk

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

LifePeopleGossipPersonalNever

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Jenny Slate

MeWantWriteStudioMovie

You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

Jeffrey Lurie

GoodNot Good EnoughWinEnoughLose

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

Sonia Sotomayor

WorkParentsEnoughGoMeetPoor

When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch.

Trish Goff

ModelingCouchStartedGetChic

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Robert Fisk

GoodYourselfI AmYouLookGo

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster.

Tom Douglas

ShortFishYouKnifeWillNeed

Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.

Robert Zubrin

TodayPeopleWorldThinkYouTake

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

Miranda Seymour

LovePoetryTo LoveMortalityGraves

A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

Demetrious Johnson

ExperiencePeopleDoingYouBack

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

William Kunstler

LaborImportantAlwaysMovementMay

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

Mark Udall

WaterFoodResponsibilityWhyPlaces

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