William Dunbar Quotes

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

  

  Sallust
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Rule

• Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Want

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hell

• I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Food
  • Room
  • My Own

• As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Roles

• I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• To hell with facts! We need stories!

  

  Ken Kesey

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Respect
  • Perfect
  • Effort

• Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Wish

• I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Force
  • Conceive
  • Curved

• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  

  William Dunbar
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Habit