William Jenkyn Quotes

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

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• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Constitution
  • Fair
  • Both

• In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Good Will

• The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

  

  F. Matthias Alexander

• Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • She
  • Bad

• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • World
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hate

• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Balance
  • Novelists
  • Thumbs

• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Character
  • Age
  • Perfection

• Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • War
  • Leader

• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Effort

• God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Mind
  • Answer

• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Ability

• It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Selfish
  • Opinions

• I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Film
  • Paul
  • Let it Be

• Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

  

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Children
  • Visions
  • Brighter

• There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

  

  William Jenkyn
  • Affection
  • Prayers