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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not con...
WILLIAM PENN
Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, l...
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals
WILLIAM PENN
there is an old saying that when you whistle the devil dances. So why are you standing still?
WILLIAM PENN
Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it
WILLIAM PENN PATRICK
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life tr...
WILLIAM PENN ADAIR ROGERS
Photographing a cake can be art.
IRVING PENN
In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was ...
KAL PENN
My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as mu...
KAL PENN
I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the...
KAL PENN
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this wee...
KAL PENN
To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
KAL PENN
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional polit...
KAL PENN