William Godwin Quotes

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.

William Godwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

Topics

HappinessKnowledgePowerService

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Jeff Koons

ArtResponsibilityMeBelieveBetter

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.

Stan Van Gundy

PoliticsPeopleYouSkinPersonal

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

Toni Braxton

FamilyLoveAnythingThemI Love

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Diane Lane

LoveHandsPersonMailAnything

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Chris Lowell

RomanticHopelessWillMoreAlways

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

AgeBelieveLanguageDevelopmentSee

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.

Prince

BibleStudyInteractionSocialGuide

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Sylvester Stallone

LoveFeelNeverEverythingEmotional

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Penelope Lively

GratefulKingNowUpAgnosticWhich

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Penn Jillette

MeMagicYouDoneWantTalk

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

Tiger Shroff

GoodPeopleLookingThinkAppreciate

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Kurt Vonnegut

GratitudeTeacherThinkingLiterature

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