William Law Quotes
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
Kate Moss
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
Major Taylor
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
Felicia Day
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
Karen Kain
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
Ted Dekker
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
Olivia Thirlby
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Malala Yousafzai
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Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
Caroline Leavitt
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I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.
David Lambert
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It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
Chris Messina
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
Warren Farrell
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
Bernice King
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
