Jeremy Taylor Quotes

...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...

Jeremy Taylor

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• I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Thought

• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Eye
  • Fame

• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Story
  • Perfection
  • Short

• G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Heart
  • Feel
  • Attitude

• I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Want
  • Me
  • Decisions

• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Political
  • Support

• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Strong

• In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Play
  • Photography

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• The point of vision and desire are the same.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Vision
  • Same

• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • You
  • Fear
  • Failure

• The fact that a New Hampshire legislator's position is not seen as a career or a way of supporting a family has meant that it draws women. At times, I think men who might be looking for a paid career have known that they couldn't make one out of serving in the legislature. So there's a little more space for women.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Know
  • Find

• A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Myself

• I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, so from the age of 13 to 24 I didn't play much. Then when I moved out to L.A., there were so many tennis courts that I rekindled the love.

  

  David Walton
  • Life
  • Age
  • Tennis

• Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Men

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • History
  • True
  • Future

• I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

  

  Will Forte
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Advantage

• ...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...

  

  Jeremy Taylor