Worthy Quotes - Page 33

• Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Beautiful, Media, Body

  "'OTH' Star Shantel VanSanten Will Empower You!". The Insider Interview, www.yahoo.com. January 03, 2012.

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• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

  Horace

  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Two, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• The love of wicked men converts to fear;
  That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
  To worthy danger and deserved death.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hate, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Done, Sensitive

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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• He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Doe, Done

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.495

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• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  Ed Asner

  Beautiful, Musical, Roles

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• a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.

  Margery Wilson

  Names, Diplomats, Persons

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• I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.

  Sheridan Smith

  Fans, Said, Stacey

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• We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Eye, Loss

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.583, e-artnow

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• Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hero, Pride, Reflection

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

  Bronson Pinchot

  Practice, Feet, Dancing

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• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

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• If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

  Amanda Palmer

  World, Want, Pay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Scary, Historical

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• I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Ethical, Committed

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• In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

  Francis Chan

  Reality, Earning It, Forgiving

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, Trials

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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• The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Moon, Light

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Drama, Believe, Secret

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• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Expectations, Noble

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• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.

  Murray Horwitz

  Thinking, Two, Hollywood

  "The 'Next Big Thing' at the Box Office". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 2, 2008.

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• If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Hate, Writing, Names

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.

  Giordano Bruno

  World, Earth, Infinite

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