Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MoreRuinedThanSoulsAvarice

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

Jim Nabors

HomeManHelpDownPlaceFix

In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.

Jodi Kantor

ExperienceDayBlackFriendsSaid

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Johann Lamont

Make A DifferenceYouArgumentTest

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Melissa Etheridge

I AmSongPersonalExperiencesGet

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Andrae Crouch

JobPeopleSingingThinkBetter

Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

John Hoeven

EnergyStandAmericanGoalSecurity

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

MarriageWeatherWindConnection

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

Stan Wawrinka

FilmDinerFrenchMovieFavourite

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

Summer Glau

GoodFatherLookFindConservative

Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

Mickey Drexler

TrainingPersonKidUpExpensive

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Jon English

MusicEnergyYouBodyPlaySweat

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Coretta Scott King

LifeHappinessMoneySpiritualHappy

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