William Shenstone Quotes

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

William Shenstone

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• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Death
  • Singing
  • Creative

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Identity
  • My Life

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Performance

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Watch
  • Press

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Long
  • Me
  • Friend

• I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Fun

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Time
  • Kids
  • High

• Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Great
  • America
  • Soul

• America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Time
  • America
  • Sports

• God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.

  

  John Bevere
  • Worship
  • Walks
  • Manifest

• So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Experience
  • Sacrifice
  • Drugs

• Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Church
  • Understanding
  • Wine