Francis Quarles Quotes

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

Francis Quarles

• Adversity
• Worldly
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• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
  • Fast

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Naked

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movies

• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Experience
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Couple

• The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Middle

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I love my country, but maybe that's because I'm white and rich. I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit, that I refuse to share with others.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Country

• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • God
  • Lost

• Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Science

• I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

  

  Kris Allen
  • People
  • Music

• I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Career
  • Actors
  • Craft

• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Magic

• Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • Work
  • Control

• There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Communication
  • Media
  • Old

• I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

  

  John McGahern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

  

  Francis Quarles
  • Adversity
  • Worldly
  • Allowance