William Shenstone Quotes
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.William Shenstone
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
Dale Earnhardt -
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams -
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli -
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
Aaron Johnson -
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
Adam McKay
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
Gabby Douglas -
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
Abbey Lincoln -
I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.
Palmer Luckey -
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte -
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia -
As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
Ram Dass
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Karl Marx -
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell -
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
Henry David Thoreau -
The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
J. G. Ballard -
Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
Alan Moore -
I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
Maria Sharapova
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It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
Chris Daughtry -
I think it was a miracle. As a kid, when I needed a mommy, she was there when I needed my lunch or help with my homework.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key -
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. Gilbert -
People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
Marshall McLuhan -
Silence is safer than speech.
Epictetus -
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
William Shenstone