Category: Quotes

  • 10 top william gibson quotes

    10 top william gibson quotes

    10 top william gibson quotes

    • When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.
    • Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
    • I think I’d probably tell you that it’s easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
    • Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
    • Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn’t have wanted.
    • We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.
    • His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
    • There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
    • To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
    • Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
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  • 10 thought-provoking william f. buckley jr. quotes

    10 thought-provoking william f. buckley jr. quotes

    10 thought-provoking william f. buckley jr. quotes

    • I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
    • Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
    • Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.
    • Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
    • I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
    • Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples’ freedom and security.
    • Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
    • Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
    • Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
    • The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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  • 10 notable william ewart gladstone quotes

    10 notable william ewart gladstone quotes

    10 notable william ewart gladstone quotes

    • If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.
    • Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
    • We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
    • No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    • Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
    • Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    • Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
    • Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness.
    • Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
    • I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.
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  • 10 beautiful quotes by william cowper

    10 beautiful quotes by william cowper

    10 beautiful quotes by william cowper

    • Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.
    • Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.
    • Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
    • But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
    • Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
    • When we don’t pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.
    • Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
    • Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
    • Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
    • God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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  • 10 interesting quotes by william congreve

    10 interesting quotes by william congreve

    10 interesting quotes by william congreve

    • Say what you will, “it is better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    • Heav’n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.
    • Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
    • If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
    • Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
    • Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
    • Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.” (quoted in Life After Life).
    • In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I’m grateful for the past.
    • She likes herself, yet others hates / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises.
    • I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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  • 10 top william carey quotes

    10 top william carey quotes

    10 top william carey quotes

    • It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
    • I’m not afraid of failure; I’m afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
    • Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.
    • I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God’s failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.
    • Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.
    • The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.
    • There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
    • Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
    • You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey’s Saviour.
    • If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
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  • 10 inspirational quotes by william blake

    10 inspirational quotes by william blake

    10 inspirational quotes by william blake

    • A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
    • Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
    • If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.
    • Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
    • I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
    • The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
    • In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
    • Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
    • If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
    • Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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  • 10 quotes by will arnett

    10 quotes by will arnett

    10 quotes by will arnett

    • Well, no, I didn’t because I didn’t even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn’t even on my radar. I hadn’t… I hadn’t even thought about it.
    • I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.
    • Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately – and this isn’t the first time I’ve said this, so I’ll bore you again with it – but ultimately it was… I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
    • Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.
    • Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn’t ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.
    • It doesn’t look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you’re gonna take a hit from a… from sort of a public relations standpoint.
    • It’s very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.
    • I’ve always maintained that I don’t think comedy should be reviewed. I think it’s un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
    • When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.
    • I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
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  • 10 notable quotes by wilfred owen

    10 notable quotes by wilfred owen

    10 notable quotes by wilfred owen

    • Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
    • We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
    • And in his eyes The cold stars lighting, very old and bleak, In different skies.
    • Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.
    • Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
    • But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
    • I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
    • Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.
    • For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.
    • As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
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  • 10 great quotes by whoopi goldberg

    10 great quotes by whoopi goldberg

    10 great quotes by whoopi goldberg

    • Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
    • We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
    • I don’t have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
    • I don’t have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I’m working. I can tell stories, and there’s some funny in them.
    • All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I’m 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, ‘It was okay, I did all right.
    • That’s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in.
    • I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.
    • We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
    • Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
    • When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.
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