"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere……" — William Powell
"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances."
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13 Quotes by William Powell
William Powell has 13 quotes on this site.
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Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't…
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken,…
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I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough…
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A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing,…
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A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as…
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I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of…
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I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with…
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My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is…
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Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember…
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I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
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Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.
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More Acquaintance Quotes
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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