Powell Clayton Quotes

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Powell Clayton

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1833 - August 23, 1914

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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

Jesse Jackson

LifeFocusI AmMovingControlYou

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Stella McCartney

PeopleStartThinkLuxuryYouWay

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

Stephen Breyer

GoodGovernmentPeopleWillMean

I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.

Sia

I AmGayKnowIdentifyReallyAm

Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.

Mary Kay Andrews

LifeFamilyBeachPlanningKeyDown

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

Michael Phelps

GodSayingBelieveI BelieveHighly

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

Jay Chandrasekhar

KindNeverThrownHilariousSport

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

Diane Lane

DayManMouthWayAlwaysEat

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

Doug E. Fresh

WorkOpportunityStartJumpWay

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Christopher Alexander

PowerPeopleRealityBuildingsWay

I had been exposed to bitcoin early. I thought the consumer application of it felt, to me, further away. I thought there would be faster adoption of the blockchain in the enterprise space and with banks.

Brad Garlinghouse

SpaceMeThoughtEarlyBlockchain

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

Peter Kreeft

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