William Penn Quotes

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

William Penn

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• By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • End
  • Defeated

• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Sex

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I love creative people.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Love
  • Creative

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Serious
  • Choose

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Face
  • Without
  • Brand

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Things
  • Comfort

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Family
  • Comedy

• The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Life
  • World
  • Pass Away

• I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Men
  • Sex
  • Gay

• Baltimore, it's been an amazing place and experience. It's opened my eyes a little bit just of other organizations. I'm proud to be a part of this team, proud to be part of this group of men that really challenged each other, never pointed the fingers, never turned our backs on each other.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Team

• Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Point
  • Enemies

• All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Spoil