William Shenstone Quotes

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

William Shenstone

• Mind
• Simple
• Fame
• Relax
• Glory

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
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• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
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• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

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  • World
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• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
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• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
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• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

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  • Work
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• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
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• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

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  • Men
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• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
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• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

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  • Life
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• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

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• If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?

  

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  • Why
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  • America

• For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

  

  John le Carre
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• Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

  

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  • Culture
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• I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

  

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  • I Can
  • Breath
  • Hold

• The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Wise
  • Stupid

• Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Mind
  • Simple
  • Fame