William P. Young Quotes

You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.

William P. Young

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• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Human
  • Will

• It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Want
  • Kid
  • Obscure

• One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • World
  • Done
  • Feelings

• Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Understanding
  • Gift
  • Offer

• You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  

  Alan Alda
  • School
  • Business
  • Want

• It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Governments
  • Rulers

• Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • Why
  • Unity

• Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

  

  Nahum Tate
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Desire

• I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Sing
  • Paint

• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Science

• I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

  

  Homaro Cantu
  • Technology
  • Looks
  • Creating

• There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Motivational
  • Track

• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • America
  • Winning
  • Gods

• You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.

  

  William P. Young
  • Capable
  • Objects
  • Limitation