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
Creation can always lead to dictatorship.
Wu Shanzhuan
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.
Mark Steyn
I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
Michael Zaslow
Don't lose your temper; use it.
Dolly Parton
But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.
Barack Obama
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
