Goldwin Smith Quotes

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Goldwin Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910

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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Jill Abramson

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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

John Galliano

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The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Andrew Denton

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When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Matthew Lawrence

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FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I'm at home even though I'm not.

Stephen Curry

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I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

Stephen Hough

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For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Robbie Robertson

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I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

Ronald Biggs

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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

David Souter

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To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

David Wells

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'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.

Clark Gregg

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My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

Chuck Pagano

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