Entertain Quotes

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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you… — Joseph Campbell
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come… — Anne Lamott
Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and… — Joseph Hall
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain… — Ernest Holmes
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about… — Abraham Lincoln
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. — Thomas Ehrlich
Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since with equal clarity He asserted:… — Cyril of Jerusalem
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got… — George Carlin
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to… — George Bernard Shaw
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter… — Poul Anderson
The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little… — Elliott Erwitt
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to… — Hannah More

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