Peter McWilliams Quotes

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Peter McWilliams

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• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • World
  • Couple
  • Thought

• I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Important
  • Family
  • Black

• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  

  Tan Le
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Research

• I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • Years
  • Be Careful

• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Successful
  • I Can

• Scotland is undoubtedly the star of 'Outlander.' I'm so proud of the country and all it has to offer.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Star

• I can't stand watching myself on TV.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Myself
  • Stand
  • Watching

• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Money
  • Know
  • Movies

• There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Crowd
  • Lot
  • Every

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Illness
  • Mental Illness

• I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Doctor
  • Nutritionist

• Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lost

• The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Weird
  • Keep
  • Machine

• Notice the word ‘noble’ in noble truth. This is a truth to be realized. We are not told to grasp or believe this truth; it isn’t a belief; it isn’t a dogma; it isn’t a metaphysical truth; it isn’t the ultimate reality. It is a very common human experience of loss, identifying with that which is unsatisfactory, with change, with the delusions we create, and the expectations and assumptions we make about our lives

  

  Ajahn Sumedho
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Word

• The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • World
  • Mountains
  • Trees

• The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Political
  • Food

• I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Life
  • Sweet

• Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

  

  Peter McWilliams