William R. Alger Quotes

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • End
  • Cutting
  • Build

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Camera

• Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • People
  • Business
  • Me

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

  

  Ian Axel
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.

  

  Doug Liman

• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The Wise Man is that which he hath. The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose, then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Wise
  • Paradise

• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • Good
  • Business
  • True

• Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend