William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Education is so important.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Education

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Way
  • Habit
  • Records

• Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Text

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

  

  John Holmes
  • Remember
  • Universe

• We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Way
  • Desire
  • Convince