William Shenstone Quotes
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
William Shenstone
Quotes to Explore
I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
Felipe VI of Spain
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
Tammy Duckworth
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
Rainn Wilson
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
Daniel Barenboim
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
Nadine Gordimer
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
Marvin J. Ashton
