William Morris Quotes

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

William Morris

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Everything
  • Conflict
  • Wants

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Wishes

• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

  

  John Hall
  • Work
  • Job
  • High

• I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Mother
  • Father

• A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Lost
  • Pain