William Law Quotes

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

William Law

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• I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Best

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Married

• If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Money
  • Today
  • Movies

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Greatest

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Words
  • Change

• It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Year

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Know

• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Fat

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • American
  • Help
  • Comedy

• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Great
  • Power
  • Science

• I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• McLeavy: I'm innocent. (A little unsure of himself, the beginnings of panic) Doesn't that mean anything to you?

  

  Joe Orton
  • Innocent

• It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live
  • May
  • Remember

• Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

  

  William Law
  • Christian
  • Prayer
  • Judging