William Shenstone Quotes

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

William Shenstone

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• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Enemy

• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Perfect
  • Rich
  • Canada

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Poor

• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Dresses

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• I am not an enemy of Adventism.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Enemy
  • Adventism

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Enemy

• Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• To know you have enough is to be rich.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Rich

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Anger
  • Disappointment
  • Skiing

• When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Science

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Enemy
  • Rich
  • Dresses