William Penn Quotes

Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Red
  • Apple

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Imagination
  • Stories

• Anybody can leap off a building.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Building
  • Anybody
  • Leap

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Women
  • Sex

• Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • True
  • Learning

• We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Option

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Action

• We wanted to play with passion and excitement, and we did that. We could have very well have won the game. We played well enough to win.

  

  Chris Chelios
  • Play
  • Passion
  • Win

• Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.

  

  Nonso Anozie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Fly

• Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • Giving
  • Responsibility
  • Powerful

• There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Gay
  • Silence
  • Pleasure

• Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

  

  William Penn
  • Silence
  • Folly