Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

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• I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Society

• It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Common
  • Differences

• History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • True
  • History
  • Law

• There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Experience
  • Results
  • Improvement

• Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

  

  Saadi
  • Society
  • Needs
  • Intelligent

• Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you 'bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

  

  Jerry Lawler
  • Time

• After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • September
  • Iran

• Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • True
  • Action