Philip Sidney Quotes

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip Sidney

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• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Understand

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

  

  B. J. Daniels
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Think
  • Better
  • Evolution

• I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Want

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Separate

• I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Peace

• CALLINGWind rocksthe porch chairsomebody home.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Home

• Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Mountain
  • Grief

• Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Different
  • Political
  • Action

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Religion
  • Promise
  • Atheism

• Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

  

  Philip Sidney