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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mathematics Study Nile Begins Like

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

Patience Truth Emotion Where Goes

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

Home Truth People Truth Is Hurt

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Man Value Direction Possibilities Go

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

Time Peace Me Enough Help Cry

I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.

Luke Macfarlane

Best Thought Career Actor Try Going

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Art Imagination Value You Understand

Sound should bring you in. We have people in all these specialized departments to make it one whole. They are supposed to work together to bring us into their world, not push us away. For example, rock music has to be loud, but it doesn't have to be too loud.

Donna McKechnie

Work Music Together People World

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Deborah Eisenberg

Live Power Children World Think

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

Struggle Feel Back Know Damn Way

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Challenge Man Yourself Win Better

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

Life Positive Good Me Think Back

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Humor Think Sense Of Humor Flaws

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