John Tillotson Quotes

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

John Tillotson

• Passion
• Reason
• Victory
• Goodness
• Lust

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• I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Everyone
  • Century
  • Underdog

• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Need
  • Last

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • America
  • Horse

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Try
  • Flowers
  • Construction

• It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Long
  • Environment
  • Struggle

• What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Passion

• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Health

• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Character
  • Impossible

• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Victory