Francis Walsingham Quotes

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Francis Walsingham

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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Mother`s
  • Lot

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Keep

• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Why
  • True

• I never played with anything like toys.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Never
  • Toys

• Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Old
  • Looking
  • Glass

• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Working

• Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Moving

• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hand

• Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...

  

  Larry Wall

• She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She

• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  

  David Wolpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Prayer

• Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Great
  • Home

• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  

  Francis Walsingham