William Feather Quotes

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • See

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip

• And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Design

• The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Principle Of Life

• If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reconnecting

• As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

  

  Neville Bonner
  • Grandfather
  • Council
  • Alright

• The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

  

  Mohamed Al-Fayed
  • Grandfather
  • Wealthy

• Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

  

  William Feather
  • Principles
  • Grandfather
  • Grandparent