William Shenstone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
-
Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
-
Kids are disorganized.
-
I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
-
I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
-
I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.
-
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
-
Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
-
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
-
I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
-
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
-
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
-
The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
-
I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
-
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
-
The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
-
You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a strong enough word—you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It’ll never be enough. I want eternity.
-
What is necessary is to rectify names.
