John Woolman Quotes

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

John Woolman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1720 - October 7, 1772

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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Millington Synge

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I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again.

Steve Jones

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Acting is always a challenge.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

Robert B. Parker

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Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

Joseph Fiennes

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If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

Christie Hefner

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I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

Brie Larson

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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali MacGraw

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We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

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I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

Two Chainz

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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Norman Lloyd

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War is a profane thing.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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