William Johnson Cory Quotes

Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Complaining

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Men
  • Three
  • Lady

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Today
  • New York

• If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Equality

• Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Power
  • Fool

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• We all know what it’s like living in the modern world with social media and with friendship groups, there’s a lot of stigma attached to saying you’re not feeling as great as you should be, whether it’s in a workplace environment or in a school... [Celebrities] don’t ever want to tell anyone how to live their life, but the more we can share our experiences, the more we can help each other out.

  

  Olly Alexander Years & Years
  • World
  • Social Media
  • Friendship groups

• Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • World
  • Stars
  • Known