Bill Mauldin Quotes

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

Bill Mauldin

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• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Belief
  • Slow

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Right
  • Three

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Books
  • Finish

• He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Great

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Society

• Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Remember

• You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

  

  Annie Parisse
  • People
  • Crazy

• Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Rest

• They had absolutely no sexual interest in me.

  

  Betty Hill

• On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Great
  • Arrogant
  • Note

• Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

  

  Bill Mauldin