William Beveridge Quotes
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.William Beveridge
Quotes to Explore
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin -
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Gail Collins -
I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
Cameron Mathison -
I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
Laura Osnes -
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo -
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
Ted Lindsay -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson -
We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
Federica Mogherini -
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
Dambisa Moyo
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet -
I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
Maggie Q -
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird -
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey -
I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
Jacki Weaver -
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
Orlando Bloom
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
Rachel Corrie -
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Seneca the Younger -
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Harry Dean Stanton -
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
William Beveridge