William Shenstone Quotes

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

William Shenstone

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• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I like Sergio Ramos, who plays Real Madrid.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Real

• If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Song

• Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Culture

• Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fun

• For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Women
  • May
  • Fighting

• Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

  

  Peter Lombard
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you - that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen.

  

  John Ridley

• Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Men
  • Live
  • Die

• If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Business

• We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Given
  • Significant
  • Ifs And

• We're all equal before a wave.

  

  Laird Hamilton

• At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• We got happy just taking the threes. After a tough game (a 95-89 loss at Detroit on Friday), you may not have the leg strength. That was key. We were trying to penetrate and kick. The shots didn't go down. Just don't blame it on shooting. You can never blame a loss on shooting. It's what you do defensively.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Trying
  • May
  • Happy

• The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Machine
  • Directions
  • Brando

• Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Blessed

• The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Plans
  • Stumble Upon

• The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.

  

  Gelek Rimpoche
  • Competition
  • Successful
  • Increase

• Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.

  

  William Crookes
  • Values
  • Numbers
  • Limits

• You name the sci-fi shows, and I'm a huge sucker for them.

  

  Erin Way
  • Name
  • Them
  • Sucker

• I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

  

  Rick Boucher
  • People
  • Defend
  • Undertaken

• We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Respect
  • Progress
  • Texts

• Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Increase
  • Instance
  • Dependence