Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SeaStormWaitBetterMeetOut

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

Andy Grove

ChangeBusinessOrderOffThanSome

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

Johnathon Schaech

WorkFatherMotherHomeDaySurvive

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

Ana de Armas

MoneyKnowMoviesNothingCubaSee

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

Sun Tzu

WinArmyWillSpiritSameWhose

'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

Trent Reznor

LoveCoolThinkSoundI Think

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

Lisa Guerrero

HumanFanApproachVery

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

RulesMoreConformityLegislation

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

Jonathan Ive

TechnologyPathThinkApplePersonal

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

Donald Johanson

OpportunityExperienceGoUpAncient

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

HappinessLongLoseSomePossess

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

Alicia Vikander

LanguageLearnYouBeingDryLast

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Susan Orlean

GreatBuildingSurpriseEarthSilver

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