William Shenstone Quotes

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

William Shenstone

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• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
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  • Independence
  • Needed

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
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  • Desire

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Alone
  • Desire
  • Moment

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Together
  • Support
  • Desire

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Progress
  • Said
  • Abundance

• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Independence
  • Brand

• As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • Decision

• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Desire

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect
  • Mean
  • Relationships

• I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Joy
  • Mean

• I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Myself
  • Information

• One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • God
  • Interesting

• The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Example
  • Nations

• I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Feet
  • Carpet
  • List

• Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Independence