Elihu Root Quotes

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Elihu Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937

Topics

MenFightingWallPlaceNobodyWeak

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

Andy Kindler

LifeLovePeopleThinkFeelKnow

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

SuccessHappinessParentingBalance

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Roy Bean

GoodMenHellYouHeavenGuilty

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

Michael Rooker

LifeGreatBestMountainsVacation

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

Lou Gramm

HealthNewYearsWorkingFiveAlbum

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

LifeYouPrivilegeBeingLifetime

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ManInformationYearsWouldMade

What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.

Johnny Depp

CharacterPersonalityManMeFind

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

MeWritingKindCopingMechanism

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Armie Hammer

TimeFoodKissRestaurantNapFirst

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alice Munro

BestMeStoryShortFeelLong

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Pythagoras

EasyYouNothingDifficultBecomes

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