William Penn Quotes

Never despise what you don't understand.

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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

• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Life
  • Great
  • Athlete

• Angela spared a glare for Kami, and then resumed her marathon glaring session at Jared. 'It's too weird. I'm going to call you Carl.' Jared scowled. 'I don't want you to call me Carl.' 'That's interesting, Carl,' said Angela, cheering up.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Interesting
  • Said
  • Cheer

• An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Mind
  • Understood
  • Novelty

• The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

  

  David Farragut
  • Defense
  • Guns
  • Directed

• The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.

  

  Canvass White
  • Perfect
  • Water
  • Care

• Never despise what you don't understand.

  

  William Penn
  • Despise