William Arthur Ward Quotes

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

William Arthur Ward

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• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• Big business has no party and never shall have.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Party
  • Big

• I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Important
  • Think

• I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Running

• Cuando ya nada me quede, no pediré más nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Famous

• I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Time
  • Different
  • Happy

• Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

  

  David Chang
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Thinking
  • Book

• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Power
  • Independent
  • Goddess

• I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Great

• You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • World
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Dad

• Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • World
  • Writing

• You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Road

• One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Women
  • Stop

• You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

  

  John H. Johnson
  • Time

• If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Black
  • Strong

• As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • Writing

• Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thanksgiving