William Arthur Ward Quotes
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was an English major in college!
-
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
-
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
-
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
-
It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
-
When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
-
I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
-
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
-
Television was essentially my college.
-
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
-
Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
-
What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
-
By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
-
I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
-
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
-
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
-
Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'
-
When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.
-
There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.
-
If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
-
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
-
I never thought I would say this, but I'm desperate to do an action film.
-
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
