William Penn Quotes

Never despise what you don't understand.

William Penn

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• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Everything
  • Something
  • Once

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Choice

• I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Game

• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Food
  • Service

• We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • World
  • America
  • War

• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

  

  Jerry Brown

• If Dems don't stick together, we're going to lose.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Together

• The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.

  

  Andrew Mwenda
  • Christian
  • Poverty

• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  

  Antonia Thomas
  • Drama
  • Period

• Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Career

• In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Up
  • Game
  • Question

• I think everybody has a secret life.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Life

• I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

  

  Peter Sis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Country

• Things explain each other, not themselves.

  

  George Oppen

• I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

  

  Bill Withers
  • World
  • Mirror

• In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Wine
  • Step
  • Phones

• From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Learn
  • Prepared
  • Despise

• I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

  

  Thaddeus Stevens
  • Death
  • Soldiers
  • Despise

• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Victory
  • Music Is
  • Human Condition

• I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Party
  • Kid
  • Restaurant

• Never despise what you don't understand.

  

  William Penn
  • Despise