William Arthur Ward Quotes

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

William Arthur Ward

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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Malcolm Mclaren
- People
- Failure
- Plant
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

Sam Yagan
- People
- Together
- Parents
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

N. T. Wright
- World
- Death
- Christian
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky
- Great
- Art
- Steal
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Samuel L. Jackson
- Thinking
- Character
- Guy
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Paolo Bacigalupi