William Gurnall Quotes

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Old

• So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Up
  • Country
  • Language

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• I have three closets in my bedroom.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Three
  • Bedroom
  • Closets

• Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • World
  • Art
  • Stealing

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Good
  • Growing
  • Me

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mind
  • Running

• I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heart

• You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • People
  • Character

• The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Feedback

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

  

  Tacitus
  • Rich
  • Reforms
  • Satiety

• All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Earth
  • Hands
  • Drawing