William Gilmore Simms Quotes

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Lost

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Identity

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Victory

• I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Authentic

• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Trying
  • Wise
  • Fool

• If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • World
  • Me
  • End

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Routine

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Criticism

• I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life
  • Death
  • Strong

• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

  

  Martin Chalfie
  • Understanding
  • Study

• Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Criticism
  • Blame
  • Praise