William Jones Quotes

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

William Jones

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Important
  • You
  • Privacy

• Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Important
  • Information
  • More

• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Health

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Important
  • Very
  • Maintain

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Important
  • Writing

• Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Important
  • Training
  • New

• When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Military

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• Actually it was not really a very special feeling, but surely we’ve been kind of proud of being in the business for such a long time, but that is what we always wanted to do. And I think there is nothing better to live your dreams, even if they are bad some times. But I think that keeps you going. To say it with a song title from the Double X album…"But We Still Rock"!

  

  Claus Lessmann Bonfire
  • Live
  • Song
  • Proud

• I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

  

  Franz Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

  

  William Jones
  • Important
  • Morality
  • Written