William Shenstone Quotes

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Free
  • Obsessed
  • Classic

• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
  • Born

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Painting

• In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Different
  • Women
  • Enemy

• Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Addresses
  • Mail

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • House
  • Silence

• The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Goal
  • Organization
  • Cause

• The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Enemy
  • Resolution
  • Addresses