William Penn Quotes
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.William Penn
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran -
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
Natasha Leggero -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
Waverley Lewis Root -
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard -
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln -
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Ralph Peters -
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild -
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
Kevin Hart -
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
Edi Rama -
I overcame size with mechanics.
Edwin Moses -
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
William Penn