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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Appreciate Person Will Posterity

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

People Comedy More Out Going Than

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

Change People Perception Feel Gay

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Grateful Lion I Am Pride Out Roar

The youth in India tend to be rebellious, as with everywhere else, and that makes Shiva exciting. He has the rebellious qualities that the youths like.

Youth India Rebellious Exciting Like

Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that's the great thing about fashion. In a way, it's like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.

Great Day Fashion Wish Look Acting

We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.

Fear World Consequences Enemy Said

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

Life Sports Time Day Job Me

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

Love Time Reading Internet Enough

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.

Me Think You Want Write Sense

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

Pain My Own Own Get Mindful Too

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

Life Father Great My Life Jail Dead

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

Auberon Herbert

Freedom Man Action Free Learn You

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