John Tyler Quotes

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

John Tyler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862

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Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

PrideFallMeetWillMatterFail

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

John Corbett

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My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Robert Griffin III

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My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

Angus King

PeopleFeelViewYouEdgeVote

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Sufjan Stevens

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When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

Mary J. Blige

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Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

Debra Granik

YouGoSometimesCallFilmGoing

I really do not make deals.

Arlen Specter

MakeDealsReally

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

Peter Hook

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

FreedomMenBlessingsExpectReap

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

Marie Curie

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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

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