William Morris Quotes

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

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• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Teacher
  • Wanted
  • Ballet

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Booked

• Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Science
  • Change

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Death
  • Silent

• There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Something
  • Movement

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I think if there was a sharing in the ups, a sharing in the downs, the country would not be as divided.

  

  John Schnatter
  • Country

• When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Real
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

  

  David Hockney
  • Live
  • Age

• My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Reality
  • Overcoming
  • Sobriety

• The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

  

  William Morris
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Helping