Joseph Jefferson Quotes

And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

Joseph Jefferson

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• The way we are dancing in this show is the way you would only normally dance with your boyfriend or your husband. It's very sensual and sexual. You do get very close.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Dance
  • Husband
  • Dancing

• I can say unequivocally that we have gotten information through this program that would not otherwise have been available.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Information
  • Program
  • Unequivocally

• I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Heart
  • Attention

• This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Great
  • God
  • Father

• Why should beauty be suspect?

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Why
  • Beauty
  • Suspect

• You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Stranger
  • Footsteps

• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • American
  • History
  • Ideas

• Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Sweet
  • Patience
  • Bitter

• Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Temptation
  • Hinduism

• What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Feels
  • Pleasure
  • Immaterial

• The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

  

  William Clay Ford, Sr.
  • Life
  • Business
  • Energy

• Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Man

• He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Remember
  • Air
  • Lines

• Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.

  

  Alex Smith
  • Failures
  • Inevitable
  • Setbacks

• To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious to be wasted on trivial matters.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Hated
  • Precious
  • Trivial

• I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Church
  • Feel
  • Repressed

• Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Teacher
  • Jazz
  • Freak

• Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Happiness

• And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

  

  Joseph Jefferson
  • Notice
  • Tenants
  • Expired