George Bancroft Quotes

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891

Topics

BeautyTruthJusticeSoulLawMoral

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

Jerry B. Jenkins

FunnyTodayFeelPowerfulYesterday

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

Andre Holland

New YorkNewDoneNeverAlwaysYork

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

John Oliver

LifeMy LifeEventsChillingRally

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

John Malkovich

DreamsSomeoneYouDreamActingOut

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

Ann Makosinski

TimeDayFeelDoingEvery Day

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

Ann Patchett

DogTimePeopleMeBabyBad

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

Soledad O'Brien

EducationPeopleThinkConnections

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Steven Soderbergh

ChangeBusinessGreatTimeDieYou

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

Tony Abbott

PeopleSayingWayPossibleActive

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye

MusicHopeWorldFindI CanPlace

One thing that Alaskans clearly appreciate is seniority.

Lisa Murkowski

AppreciateClearlyOne ThingThing

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Davy Crockett

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