Edward Jenks Quotes

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

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• You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Know
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• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
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• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Me
  • Wants
  • Heroic

• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • You
  • Repair

• In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Up
  • Always
  • Ideas

• What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • World
  • Important
  • Success

• Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Dog

• Life is not life at all without delight.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Life

• I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Pretty

• When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Sailing

• My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Sexy

• I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nice

• I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Theatre

• You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

  

  Allan Savory
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love.'

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Wanted
  • Honest
  • Tunnel Of Love

• Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Chaos
  • Surprising
  • English Law