Peter McWilliams Quotes

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Peter McWilliams

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• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Relationship

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Women
  • Nothing
  • Vote

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Group

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Problem

• I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Up
  • Quiet
  • Woods

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Design
  • Wall
  • Mountains

• Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Power
  • Soul

• No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.

  

  Arrian
  • Country

• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • Determination

• But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

  

  Jared Polis
  • School
  • Kids
  • Parents

• One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.

  

  Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
  • Choices

• Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Age

• I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

  

  Bethenny Frankel

• It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Parents
  • Horse
  • Explain

• We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Gratitude

• Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music

• The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

  

  William Hope Hodgson
  • Behinds
  • Passes
  • Fragments

• If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

  

  Peter McWilliams