William Gurnall Quotes

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

William Gurnall

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Man

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.

  

  Fat Joe
  • God
  • Guy
  • Walking

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Done
  • Politics

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Good
  • Men
  • May

• Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Society
  • Breath

• There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Life

• ...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

  

  William Gurnall
  • God
  • Men
  • Fear