Horatio Alger Quotes

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Horatio Alger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899

Topics

PrayerNightFastingConfession

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

Matt Damon

WritingStoryProblemsTryingYou

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

Michael Chertoff

PerspectiveWaitThinkDistanceGo

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Amy Klobuchar

ParentsSayingLovedRememberYou

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

Sue Naegle

LoveMeEditingKnowingHungerOut

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

FunnyWomenWorldDaysIntenseJust

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Ron DeSantis

GovernmentMoreLimited Government

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Roland Barthes

PowerLanguageSpeechForgetSee

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Delta Burke

PositiveWorkMyselfDayLanguage

There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.

DeAngelo Williams

QuestionsKnowAlwaysAnswerGoing

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

Clint Eastwood

BirdPeopleBlackPictureLikeUse

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

Arancha Gonzalez

EyesBuildingOpportunitiesBridges

I was delighted to support Marco Rubio.

Asa Hutchinson

SupportDelighted

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