Wendell Phillips Quotes

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Wendell Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1811 - February 2, 1884

Topics

WorldActionThoughtGavePuritans

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Jim Hightower

HouseWhiteNewNowPoliticians

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Joanna Russ

GrowthArtMinorityOnlyMargins

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

Jessica Valenti

LifeStressMy LifeSomeoneTalking

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Roberta Smith

FishingBaseballPoetryRosesEasy

I've been offered starring roles in horrible movies, but I just didn't want to do it. I don't see why you would.

Ron White

YouWantMoviesWhySeeHorrible

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

Jay McShann

FamilyChristianBluesPlayKansas

If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

David Whyte

DestinyYouStructureNeedWithin

Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

Brian L. Roberts

TechnologyCharacterKnowledgeShoes

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

ScienceChildrenArtCreativeRather

Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.

Anthony Scaramucci

FightAlongGetLikeBrothersSome

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

Prince William

YouWrongSaidHorrorSheGoing

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Sherman Alexie

TimeWritingHandsWashingPoems

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