Don Williams Quotes

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

Don Williams

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• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• 'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Fighting
  • Young
  • Sides

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• 'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Wonderful

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Politics

• Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

  

  Lorde
  • Good
  • Girls
  • Swift

• It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • True
  • Future
  • Past

• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Wise

• The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Children
  • Today
  • Childhood

• This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name...

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Pleasure
  • Luck
  • Percent

• I think that last time, a lot of people thought that we were just a one-shot wonder. This album is basically gonna shove it in their faces and say' look you fuckers, we're here to stay.'

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Wonder
  • I Think
  • Shove

• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Ideas
  • Stealing
  • Shameless

• Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Capable
  • Excuses

• Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Spirit
  • Capable
  • Contradiction

• Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Women
  • Running
  • Brave

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

  

  Paul Newman
  • World
  • Children
  • Program

• What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

  

  Don Williams
  • Capable
  • Aspire