Joel Barlow Quotes

#1. There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Joel Barlow

#2. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

#3. Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed,

Christopher Hitchens

#4. You came here with so many more followers, but you lost the ones you left with.

Victoria Aveyard

#5. If you can't join them, beat them.

Mort Sahl

#6. It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

Joel Barlow

#7. We Queerfolk are big-picture types. You have to be, to see how the Queerness of the World works itself through everything.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

Franz Beckenbauer

#9. I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

Edgerrin James

#10. He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

Joel Barlow

#11. When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

Joel Barlow

#13. I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Lou Gehrig

#14. In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

Joel Barlow

#15. Love is as much trust as it is devotion

Mercedes Lackey

#16. Family is what grounds you.

Angelina Jolie

#17. Don't leave me, Jack, I said.
Not ever, he whispered back.

Nancy E. Turner

#18. How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow

#19. Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

Nancy Kress

#20. I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

Joel Barlow

#21. A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow