William Wycherley Quotes

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Wycherley

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• We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

  

  A. H. Almaas
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Weakness

• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • What You Want

• She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Father
  • Free

• In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Career
  • Responsibility

• The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Fun

• A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Lost
  • Servant

• I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Real
  • Team
  • Desire

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Adventure must start with running away from home.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Home
  • Running
  • Adventure

• Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

  

  W. Eugene Smith

• The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • Real
  • Inspiration

• Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Ah, yes, madame, the scientist replies, but what does the turtle rest on? The old lady shoots back: You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.

  

  George Will
  • Universe
  • Littles
  • Doe

• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Doe
  • Sincerity
  • Ceremony