William Penn Quotes

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

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• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Forever
  • Nothing
  • Lasts

• Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Want
  • Lasts
  • Crowns

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Sometimes
  • Singing
  • Feels

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Lasts
  • Track

• Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Chance
  • Lasts
  • Flirty

• Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Career
  • Creative
  • Careers

• When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Work
  • Book
  • Wish

• The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Want
  • Church
  • Lasts

• I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wrestling
  • Strokes
  • Canvases

• 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.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Competition
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • History
  • Past
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
  • Firsts

• I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Week
  • Storm
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • God
  • Society
  • Dying

• Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hurt
  • Feels
  • Lasts

• I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Kid

• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Voice
  • Passions
  • June

• Every man makes a god of his own desire.

  

  Virgil
  • God
  • Man
  • Desire

• Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

  

  William Penn
  • Lasts
  • Strokes
  • Fury