Washington Allston Quotes

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

Washington Allston

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• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Man
  • Interesting
  • Politics

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Environment

• I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Like

• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• My curiosity sister of larks.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sister
  • Curiosity

• The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Why

• Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Democracy

• I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Imagination

• No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

  

  Joel Salatin

• We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!

  

  Kristin Chenoweth

• There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!'

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Suffer

• I went down and as I was going down, I knew exactly what was going to happen. I was either going to be raped, robbed or murdered.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Murdered
  • Robbed
  • Raped

• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Riches
  • Occasion

• Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Pride
  • Virtue
  • Humility