William Morley Punshon Quotes
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
Quotes to Explore
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. --
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Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
