Wpd File Quotes & Sayings

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. — Helen Hunt Jackson

We wish for more in life rather than more of it. — Jean Ingelow

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message. — Al Jarreau

I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to. — Courtney Milan

Don't look at the difficulties on your path. Focus on the opportunities ahead. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him — Isabel Allende

If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows. — Plato

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working. — Ciaran Hinds