William Godwin Quotes
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
Quotes to Explore
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
Edith Pearlman
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
Olivia Wilde
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
J. Tillman
As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
Randi Weingarten
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
Naftali Bennett
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Zac Brown Band
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
Gary Cole
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
Ben Harper
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.
Margery Allingham
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
