Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1780 - 1832

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I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

John C. Calhoun

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If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.

John Lewis

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Instead of arguing about whether we're allowed to describe Muslim terrorists as 'Muslim terrorists,' why don't we argue about whether it's a good idea to be letting in so many immigrants who then blow up the Boston Marathon?

Ann Coulter

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The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Amanda Plummer

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People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

Tracy Kidder

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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

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Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.

Roshon Fegan

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I'm not running again. I will say this: It was a great experience. I loved it.

Mitt Romney

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I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence.

Lorraine Hansberry

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I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

Drew Barrymore

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If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.

Douglas Alexander

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