William Penn Quotes

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Control

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Free
  • End

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

  

  Usher
  • Passion
  • Baby
  • Pregnancy

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• [The Cretans have] more wit than words.

  

  Plato
  • Words
  • Wit

• I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

  

  William James
  • Done
  • Success
  • Giving

• A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Lost
  • College

• My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

  

  Al Roker
  • Risk
  • Jump

• Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

  

  William Penn
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