John Webster Quotes

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

John Webster

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GoodHellYouLookGoWay

Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.

John Delaney

LifeLiveRedBlueSmallVeterans

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

John Niven

NatureWinterGreatFoodMeStop

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Robert Charles Winthrop

EducationSlaveryHandsWithoutLeft

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Rita Moreno

LoveStoryUniversalThen

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Lucian Freud

MeMatterSideElementThemReally

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub

CareerBecomeIndustryLeftFilm

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

Johnny Vegas

BecomePriestBeenElectricHad

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

David Souter

TimeNew YorkCityFeetSandTide

I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

Christopher Buckley

BreakfastSweetFlyingDawnFatUp

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe.

Courtney A. Kemp

CollegeListeningTheatreBlackKnow

Stability means respecting precedents.

Arlen Specter

StabilityMeansRespecting

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

William Hague

RespectDecisionsWrongEthical

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