William Shenstone Quotes

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Know
  • Vote

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Kids

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understanding

• It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Ideas
  • Feel
  • Weird

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Food
  • Favourite
  • Dish

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Audience

• My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Life
  • God
  • Shoes

• That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

  

  Bert Lahr
  • Career
  • Hurt
  • Picture

• We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Words
  • Buddha

• Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Perfect
  • Sports
  • Strength

• Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Perfect
  • Assurance