William Watson Quotes

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

William Watson

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• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Real
  • Ignorance
  • Intelligence

• Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Shining
  • Fears

• If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Search
  • Social Media

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Yourself
  • Actor
  • Easy

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great

• Fear is not cowardice. Acting in a wrong and contemptible manner because of our fear is cowardice.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Fear
  • Acting
  • Wrong

• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Pain

• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thought
  • Emotion
  • Morality

• Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

  

  William Watson
  • Joy
  • Graves
  • Earnest