William Matthews Quotes

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

William Matthews

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Action
  • Religion

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Forever
  • Sacrifice
  • Choice

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
  • Tolerance

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• 'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Heart

• I have Bright's disease and he has mine.

  

  S. J. Perelman

• Io son colui, che tenni ambo le chiaviDel cor di Federigo, e sì le volsi,Serrando e disserrando, sì soavi.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Son

• Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Value
  • Face
  • Funds

• Je weiter ich lebe, desto nötiger scheint es mir, auszuhalten, das ganze Diktat des Daseins bis zum Schluss nachzuschreiben; denn es möchte sein, dass erst der letzte Satz jenes kleine, vielleicht unscheinbare Wort enthält, durch welches alles mühsam Erlernte und Unbegriffene sich gegen einen herrlichen Sinn hinüberkehrt.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Communication

• What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

  

  William Matthews
  • Understanding
  • Every
  • Lasting