William Penn Quotes

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

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• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
  • Hands
  • Tomorrow

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Clean

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Past
  • Professional
  • Hands

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Idea
  • Getting
  • Clean

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Shake
  • Standpoint

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

  

  Paul Singer
  • Family
  • Job
  • Freedom

• Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • America
  • California

• You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

  

  Barry Long
  • State
  • Awareness
  • Consciouness

• Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Liberty

• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  

  William Penn
  • Hands
  • Ability
  • Clean