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

• There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Practice
  • Revenge
  • Avoid

• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agree
  • Resolve
  • Humanitarian

• We're not teaching the Bible to the point that is getting it into people's hearts. A lot of churches stop after presenting biblical principles.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Bible
  • Teaching
  • Hearts

• What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!

  

  Ardyth Kennelly
  • Men
  • Sense
  • Styles

• Never despise what you don't understand.

  

  William Penn
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