William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

William Griffith Wilson

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Time
  • Day
  • Politics

• I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Lie

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Fear
  • Sometimes

• I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Real

• The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

  

  Peter Ueberroth
  • Control
  • State
  • Hole

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Enemy

• The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Teacher

• The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Enemy
  • Permanent
  • Temporary