William Penn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.
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I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
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If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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I'm so glad we had that storm last week.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it is ground into meal and eaten and you forget it. But when someone steals your land, it is always there and you can never forget it.
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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
