William Godwin Quotes

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

William Godwin

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Want

• I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Win

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,A gauntlet with a gift in't.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God

• I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

  

  Jason Sudeikis

• My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

  

  Leon Max
  • People
  • Remember
  • Wife

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • She
  • Morning

• I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Fly

• One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Identity
  • California

• I am going to be respectful of you, and I want you to be respectful of me. We are all Democrats, and we need to act like it.

  

  Marcia Fudge

• Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Business
  • Annoying

• Ernie is as tough as can be, and I think his performance in the last two majors left him highly motivated. I wouldn't be surprised if he won at St. Andrews.

  

  Gary Player
  • Performance
  • Majors
  • Ernie

• I'm old-fashioned that way. I don't believe you turn the president down.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Believe

• The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Together
  • Moments

• If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Victory

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  

  William Godwin