William H. Wharton Quotes

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Less

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Life
  • Book
  • Like

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Development
  • Fan
  • Arrested

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  

  William Beebe
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Impossible
  • Will
  • Desires

• Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Work
  • Mind

• Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Causes

• Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

  

  William H. Wharton
  • Law
  • Knows
  • Possibility