William Penn Quotes

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Eye

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Art
  • American
  • Black

• I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren't any that hadn't just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third 'Lord of the Rings' film.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Good
  • Long

• The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Secret
  • Precious

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life

• I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  

  William Penn
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Positive