William Shenstone Quotes
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
-
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
-
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
-
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
-
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
-
I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
-
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
-
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
-
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
-
Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
-
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
-
It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
-
It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
-
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
-
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
-
For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
-
I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.
-
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
-
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
-
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
-
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
