Famous Quotes Name W

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

God help those who do not help themselves.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Today a reader--tomorrow a leader.

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.