FastSaying

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.


Joseph Chamberlain

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

More Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN London is the clearing-house of the world.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Learn to think impartially.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Learn to think Imperially.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Provided that the City of London remains as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN I think they'd benefit more by getting a full day,
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbors.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of pa...
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
OWEN CHAMBERLAIN However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to re...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
WILT CHAMBERLAIN I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attribute...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to re...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN It's all we've been talking about all year. First day of practice we told all the underclassmen winn...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN This was a lot of fun. I wanted to wrestle well for the fans, and just because that's the way I am. ...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN I think a lot of people thought all our matches would be very low-scoring, very defensive. Everybody...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN With 15 seconds left I tried to get a jump on him. Luckily I got it.
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN We both wrestled hard. But I knew if I kept moving and got (his) wrist, I could get out. We work on ...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN I'm definitely hoping for an all-Mid-Penn final.
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissa...
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I ha...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-mask...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN I believe that good things come to those who work.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattere...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN I just got in a little bit of a rhythm and just kept shooting my shot. I just wanted to have another...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI I think that's what some of us did, underestimated how good of a team (OSU) is and underestimated th...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN Nobody roots for Goliath.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN What is bravery? I think it's largely when one acts spontaneously before weighing the possibilities ...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Gover...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military w...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Whatever the reason -- whether Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fightin...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN I thought it was going to go. I saw everybody camped out in the paint and my man was laying off me s...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI We don't need to do anything differently. It's just that we've got to execute what we do in practice...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI People who have lost their pets come to the circle with a picture of their pet and we talk about the...
BARBARA CHAMBERLAIN It helped me a lot. Pets are a part of your family and when you lose them, it's losing a part of you...
BARBARA CHAMBERLAIN I was very sad to see him go, but I was also very glad. I was prepared to do whatever I had to do to...
BARBARA CHAMBERLAIN You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie ...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mys...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN They're happy to be out on the field again, instead of sitting in a FEMA trailer going nuts.
DAVID CHAMBERLAIN We have to move the ball and attack the gaps in the zone to create open shots. Last year we tended t...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI I've been consistently struck by the amount of biblical illiteracy among Christians in churches. You...
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rea...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN I mean, you come to an apologetics class and you find way more than ten years ago that they themselv...
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN We really, truly need very, very sound biblical teaching by some of the best biblical teachers aroun...
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN They're not convinced that there is such a thing as objective moral truth. They're not convinced tha...
PAUL CHAMBERLAIN She ran into brick walls everywhere she went for assistance.
TRISHA CHAMBERLAIN We've got all these different ages, but we don't have one cohesive notion as to when a young person ...
SCOTT CHAMBERLAIN The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN I believe it is peace in our time.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN It has put a huge dent into their ability to do it this year. People are just dealing with the basic...
CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt ...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN The greater the awareness, the greater chance they have in terms of cultural survival. People will a...
CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There's something about how we match up with their players. We know how to play against their system...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI I think we did a bad job of getting ourselves ready for the Civil War mentally.
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI It's hard to rebound on a zone team, they were coming hard and we didn't do a good job of getting a ...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI It was a a very poor effort for us. They came out and treated it like it was the Civil War. We treat...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was goin...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI They have some really good players on their team that are known for knocking down big shots and we j...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI We basically had the game won, but we ended up losing. And that's really frustrating.
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with w...
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destructi...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtic...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN Today I have 870 days, over two years, without gambling, and I'm a dollar away from disaster. That's...
GARY CHAMBERLAIN You have to have new friends, you have to be able to, you have to learn where to go to new places to...
GARY CHAMBERLAIN As an incentive to get away from the computer and video games, I would take advantage of it.
ERIN CHAMBERLAIN The kids are scheduled with lacrosse and soccer during the nice seasons, and there seems to be littl...
ERIN CHAMBERLAIN I've only used state parks for things like if there's a breast cancer walk or a company picnic.
ERIN CHAMBERLAIN I said I was afraid and she told me to think about a time I felt brave and take that feeling into th...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
WILT CHAMBERLAIN Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay...
RHYS CHAMBERLAIN I want these girls to take away (from the conference) that they can be anything. They can do anythin...
JENNY CHAMBERLAIN The only person who can guarantee your life is you. You never know if your husband is going to die, ...
JENNY CHAMBERLAIN I hope they come away seeing they can do anything and be anything and that they need to prepare for ...
JENNY CHAMBERLAIN Pass Lake [near Deception Pass] has been pretty decent for catch-and-release fishing of mainly brown...
MIKE CHAMBERLAIN Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you ...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
JEFFERY F. CHAMBERLAIN Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounce...
JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.
ANDI JAMES CHAMBERLAIN I like it subdued and tepid, with far to much milk
ANDI JAMES CHAMBERLAIN Every man I believe that God has given a Divine spark of soul.
JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN But out of that silence rose new sounds more appalling still; a strange ventriloquism, of which you ...
COL. JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN ...On they come, with the old swinging route step and swaying battle flags. In the van, the proud Co...
COL. JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH I try to learn from my mistakes. When I didn't take that 3-pointer against Florida State, I didn't h...
ADRIAN JOSEPH I didn't think about the Florida State game anymore because I had a bad game. I don't try to dwell o...
ADRIAN JOSEPH She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t...
JOSEPH LANCASTER Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti...
JOSEPH WAPNER