William Gurnall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sentimental. Good riddance.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
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I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
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Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
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Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
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You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.
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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
