Bill Mauldin Quotes

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Bill Mauldin

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Better
  • Become
  • Hunter

• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Want
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • You
  • Trump

• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Come
  • Detour

• Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Children

• I have voted to repeal the president's health care law and will continue to advocate for its repeal. Additionally, I will push for critical reforms that focus on controlling costs and empowering patients within the health care system.

  

  Brett Guthrie
  • Law
  • Health
  • Focus

• The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

  

  Alan Paton
  • People
  • Law
  • Justice

• Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Good
  • Country
  • Family

• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • Law