Charles Lawrence Quotes

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.

Charles Lawrence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 14, 1709 - October 19, 1760

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I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.

Melissa Rauch

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Most people are telling me I look horrible.

Melanie Griffith

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In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Matthew Rhys

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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

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I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

John Polkinghorne

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Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Stacy Schiff

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At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Simon van der Meer

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It's football season; anything can happen.

Troy Brown

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You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

Tom Shales

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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Michelle Malkin

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There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

Jon Landau

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