Philip Massinger Quotes

Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,And, when we move not forward, we go backward.

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• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Why
  • Food
  • Red

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Like
  • Times
  • Instagram

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Virtue
  • Reputation
  • Rarely

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Relationship

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• I love cars, but I love bikes more.

  

  Candace Kita
  • More
  • Cars
  • Bikes

• It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

  

  David Conyers
  • Heart
  • True
  • Science

• When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • School
  • She

• I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Baby

• The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

  

  Usher
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Equality
  • Differences
  • Smallest

• Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,And, when we move not forward, we go backward.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Action