William Shenstone Quotes

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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• I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Way
  • Trouble
  • Through

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• I just can't read music.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Read
  • Just

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Air
  • Cold
  • Sick

• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Success
  • Faith

• We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying

• Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.

  

  Kameron Hurley

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm.One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Single

• Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Italian

• In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Question

• So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Home
  • Vision

• For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Sleep
  • Tears

• Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

  

  Leonor Varela
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Sister

• I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Personality

• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Sleep
  • Bees
  • Invites