John Wesley Quotes

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

John Wesley

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Great
  • Different
  • May

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

  Wale
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Day

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Golf

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Interested

• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • School
  • Me
  • Dad

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• 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 live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • May
  • Me

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'

  

  Audra McDonald
  • People
  • Country

• My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Judge
  • Interest
  • Readers

• Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

  

  John Wesley
  • People
  • Religious