William Shenstone Quotes

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

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• Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
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• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.

  

  Karen Handel
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• Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Lost
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• If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
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  • Stage

• You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • You
  • Years
  • Little

• If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Law

• One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Trust

• We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • America
  • Struggle

• I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

  

  Kunal Nayyar
  • Time
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• I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

  

  Andy Richter

• One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

  

  Knute Rockne
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  • Soul

• Foreign students... big part of our economy.

  

  John Hickenlooper

• Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

  

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• So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Different
  • Attention
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• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

  

  Arthur Dong
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Minority

• A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Harmony

• For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • History
  • Chicago

• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Scripture
  • Musical
  • Lines