Brooke Foss Westcott Quotes

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Brooke Foss Westcott

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Want
  • Spring
  • Now

• For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Fun
  • Success
  • Passion

• Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

  

  Randy West
  • Time
  • Live
  • Reading

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Towers
  • Windsor
  • Rejoiced

• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Why
  • Without

• The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Women
  • Country
  • Best

• In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • History
  • Democracy
  • Win

• I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Success
  • Focus

• I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Right

• Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • God

• Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • People
  • Political

• TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Air

• As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Surface

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

  

  Brooke Foss Westcott