John Lothrop Motley Quotes

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

John Lothrop Motley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877

Topics

LifeWillUsGiveLuxuriesDispense

If I don't lift weights, I don't feel healthy.

Matt Hardy

FeelHealthyLiftWeights

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Andy Hertzfeld

GoldHandsYouAppleKnowKind

Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind - the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.

Amy Morin

SuccessFailureGoodMindBlackYou

At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

Roky Erickson

TimeLawyerPlanetHadAnother

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Modest Mussorgsky

DeepUnderstandingThanksGotNanny

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

Jared Padalecki

LoveFoodYouBodyCozyEat

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Christopher Koch

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Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Winona LaDuke

HistoryFoodCultureRootsStoryUs

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Penelope Lively

PowerTimePastPresentPhotograph

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

Tobias Lindholm

FatherPeopleMeMomCrazySick

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Tim Kaine

AnxietyVolatilityEconomicSense

It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher profile and the actors a potentially more distinguished resume.

Richard Corliss

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