William Gurnall Quotes

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

William Gurnall

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Person
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

• Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Live
  • House

• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Real

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.

  

  Arthur Helps

• Life is a four-letter word.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Life

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  

  Peter Ustinov

• Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite - but they all worship money.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Men
  • Money

• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • House
  • Unnecessary
  • Old Maid

• Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Today

• We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Way
  • Ideas
  • Eye

• The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Prayer