Philip Massinger Quotes

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Philip Massinger

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Criticism
  • Abuse

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Identity
  • Start
  • Liberal

• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Fire

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • War
  • Civil War

• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Book
  • Mother
  • Wind

• Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Cancer
  • Common
  • Principles

• I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Everything
  • Jazz
  • Apply

• My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Human
  • Pressure
  • Human being

• He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.

  

  Tanith Lee

• It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.

  

  Calvin Coolidge

• It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Snow

• Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Remember
  • War

• Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

  

  January Jones
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Sweet

• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Bernard Baruch

• Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Opportunity
  • Levels

• I believe that the president should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. This is not something I necessarily thought in the 1980s or 1990s. Like many Americans at that time, I believed that the president should be required to shoulder the same obligations that we all carry.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Time
  • Believe

• Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Love
  • Know
  • Moves

• Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

  

  Philip Massinger