The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another...
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Roman Payne
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
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Amit Kalantri
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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Indonesia123
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of...
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Charles Bukowski
More Quotes By John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men
A government of laws, and not of men.
In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.
Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
