William Ames Quotes

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

William Ames

Quotes to Explore

I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

Eavan Boland
- Men
- Night
- Woman
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Federico Fellini
- Work
- Alive
I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

Agnes Martin
- Life
- Truth
- Attention
When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
- Up
- Time
- Growing
When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
- Real
- School
- Usc
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

Bette Midler
- Thinking
- Stop
- Singing