William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

William Griffith Wilson

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• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Dreams
  • Week

• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Talk

• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Death
  • Hand

• Silence is a text easy to misread.

  

  Alfred Angelo Attanasio
  • Silence
  • Text

• I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fashion

• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Dark

• Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Support
  • Wife

• I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Brother
  • Judge
  • Judging

• You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Mistake

• You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Friends
  • Clubs
  • Spouse

• I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Silence

• Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Forever
  • Loneliness
  • Comes

• A valuable lesson I’ve learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  

  Anna Nalick
  • Fear
  • Loneliness
  • Intimidate

• While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

  

  Brian Solis
  • Investment
  • Endeavor
  • Social brand

• [The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.

  

  George Will
  • Enemy
  • Pride
  • Loyalty

• Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Loneliness
  • Exception
  • Alcoholics