Charles Williams Quotes

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Charles Williams

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• You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Look
  • Clever

• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Problems

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Agreement

• Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Want
  • Matter

• I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Loved

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Day

• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Support
  • Doing

• My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Kids
  • Problem

• The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People

• They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • Women

• One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Age

• The gods help them that help themselves.

  

  Aesop
  • Help

• People like me thought America was the best place to be creative, to be free to create, to have the freedom to be who you are.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• You know he's going to throw high fastballs out of the zone and breaking balls. It's just being patient enough. You learn from it.

  

  Carl Everett
  • Patient
  • Breaking
  • Going To

• I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• Without any doubt, I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Doubt
  • Trump

• I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

  

  Andrea Barber
  • Good
  • House
  • Angry

• Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

  

  Charles Williams