Bernard Williams Quotes

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Alone
  • Learn

• You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • I Believe

• I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Look
  • Princess
  • Feminine

• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Movies

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Compassion

• You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Important
  • Way
  • Positive

• Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Happy
  • Doing

• Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Work
  • Human
  • Fascinating

• I have heard it asserted that the inadequate sanctions already applied have not achieved their object. At no time, and under no circumstances could sanctions that were intentionally inadequate, intentionally badly applied, stop an aggressor. This is not a case of the impossibility of stopping an aggressor but of the refusal to stop an aggressor.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • Stop

• When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • People
  • Health
  • Involved

• I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Up
  • Work

• As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Time

• Sprout's a really cool app for pregnant women. It shows you what your baby's development is in real time, so I find myself checking it quite often.

  

  Leah Busque
  • Time
  • Women
  • Real

• Jämmerlich ist freilich jene praktische Philosophie der Franzosen und Engländer, von denen man meint, sie wüßten so gut, was der Mensch sei, unerachtet sie nicht darüber spekulierten, was er sein solle.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  

  Bernard Williams