William Burkitt Quotes

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.

William Burkitt

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• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Power
  • Political
  • Earth

• I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • View
  • Serve
  • Competitive

• I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Amazing
  • Body
  • Name

• My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Food
  • Favorite

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Stop

• If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Friends

• Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  

  James Buchan

• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

  

  Ludwig Erhard
  • Art

• Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Understanding

• Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

  

  Carol P. Christ

• People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Community
  • Catholic

• A movie that makes me cry every time is 'Billy Elliot.' That scene where he's dancing in the hall, and his dad walks in. And the first time his dad can see how amazing he is dancing, but he's so conflicted with kind of his own feelings towards it. Oh, it's so emotional.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Dad

• Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

  

  Arabella Weir

• Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.

  

  William Burkitt
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