Porteus Quotes

#1. On Second Street, corner of Norris Alley, was a commodious house, known as the Slate-roof House, and built before 1700 by James Porteus for Samuel Carpenter, who sold it to Penn.

J. Thomas Scharf

#2. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Beilby Porteus

#3. I love writing family stories.

Larry Wilmore

#4. One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Beilby Porteus

#5. But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Beilby Porteus

#6. If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

Robert W. Floyd

#7. Cooties, doesn't show possibility shows impossibility.

Deyth Banger

#8. One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

Beilby Porteus

#9. To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder

#10. You can not know but can pray into what lies ahead.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly.
"Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."
"Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

Claudia Gray

#12. Why do I feel the need to be polite? It was not good seeing him. It was torturous. I hope I can avoid him the rest of the night."
"Maybe he'll trip and fall into the pool."
"Ryan can't swim."
"Then I'll push him into the pool.

Jennifer Shirk

#13. Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

#14. Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Peter McWilliams

#15. Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

Danny Tyran

#16. Healing is a moral thing to do.

Jay Inslee

#17. A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.

Sara Genn

#18. War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Beilby Porteus

#19. There's no set future, only the one we make.

Pittacus Lore

#20. Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

Beilby Porteus

#21. I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

Curtis Jackson

#22. One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

Jay Rockefeller