George C. Williams Quotes

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

George C. Williams

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• I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respect

• If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

  

  Manute Bol
  • God
  • Long
  • Kids

• The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Path
  • Broken

• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Job
  • Best

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • Loved
  • Silly

• From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • City
  • Day

• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Parents
  • Just

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Think
  • Dreams

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Love
  • Stand
  • Lighting

• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Devil
  • Level
  • Concept

• Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Become
  • Chief
  • Minister

• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Done
  • Attention
  • New

• 'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

  

  Emmanuel Petit
  • Secret
  • Private Life

• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Light

• My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Vampire

• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Man
  • Smile

• Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

  

  George C. Williams