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

• I think 'Lost in Space' certainly shifted from being an ensemble adventure series about a family facing the unknown alien environment to this trio of comedians - Dr. Smith, the Robot, and Will Robinson being the straight guy. It definitely changed its tone over the three seasons and 84 episodes we did.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Lost

• When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Actors

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection
  • Life Lesson

• It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

  

  Roger Taylor Duran Duran
  • Fun
  • Energy
  • Journey

• Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

  

  Philip Massinger