William Arthur Ward Quotes

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Doing
  • Very
  • Well

• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Real
  • Agent
  • Real estate

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Pride
  • Anxiety
  • Israel

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Forever

• A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Pride
  • Honor
  • Self

• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Force
  • Gentleness
  • Potent

• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges of getting promoted into management is negotiating the tension between the desire to please the person who promoted you while still remaining true to yourself. The tension is normal, and the fact that you feel it is probably indicative of why you were promoted.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Desire
  • Challenges
  • Management

• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Me

• Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

  

  William Arthur Ward
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