William Morley Punshon Quotes
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.
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I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
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I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.
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'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.
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Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
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Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
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There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
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Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work.
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I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
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We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
