William Golding Quotes

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

William Golding

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Context
  • Prophet

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Dad

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Silver

• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Everything
  • Conflict
  • Wants

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • You
  • Energy
  • Drive

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Time
  • Difficult
  • Flow

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Going
  • Acceptable

• Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

  

  Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Moments
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

  

  Joel Salatin

• Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Mysterious

• One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life is
  • Realization
  • Surprising

• As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • Good
  • Political
  • Poetry

• At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

  

  William Golding
  • Moments
  • Vision
  • Eye