Lewis Tappan Quotes

#1. We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

Elizabeth Miyu Blake

#2. There is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

Greg Graffin

#3. What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.

Matt Mullenweg

#4. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Budha

#5. My most important title is still "mom-in-chief." My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Michelle Obama

#6. They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

Lewis Tappan

#7. I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Lewis Tappan

#8. The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Jason Zweig

#9. And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

Plato

#10. The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.

Lewis Tappan

#11. Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

Richard Dormer

#12. The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

Lewis Tappan

#13. The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.

Lewis Tappan

#14. The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

Lewis Tappan

#15. The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Joanna Kerns

#16. You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

Lewis Tappan

#17. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

#18. Here's what I've learned about raising boys ... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Kenny Rogers

#19. We can't just drop everything, sir!"
"Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?

Terry Pratchett

#20. My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

#21. These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

Lewis Tappan

#22. The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Lewis Tappan

#23. We left the way one leaves a cherished but impossible love: our hearts heavy with regret but beating with great hope.

Mirta Ojito

#24. Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

Lewis Tappan

#25. One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

Lewis Tappan

#26. We will persevere, come life or death.

Lewis Tappan

#27. Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

Lewis Tappan

#28. I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far away from themselves, because they're metaphorical. It creates more opportunities, I think.

Mike Birbiglia

#29. If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

Lewis Tappan

#30. There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Lewis Tappan

#31. They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

Lewis Tappan

#32. If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Lewis Tappan