Odell Shepard Quotes

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Think
  • Know
  • Wise

• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • You
  • Say
  • Rather

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Same

• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Wise

• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wise

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Wise

• It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Health
  • Wise

• Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Opportunity
  • Fear
  • Waiting

• It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wise
  • Danger
  • Half

• I do think that Hillary Clinton risks looking like she's imitating Elizabeth Warren when she starts doing it. She'll look like Elizabeth the second. And nobody is electing anybody a second of anything.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Risk

• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Purpose
  • Laws

• It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

  

  Odell Shepard
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