William Stafford Quotes

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • American
  • Think
  • See

• Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Always
  • Go

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• Love is a state of being.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Love
  • Being
  • Love Is

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Education
  • Support

• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Education
  • Always
  • Back

• We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Religion
  • View
  • Terrorism

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Emotion
  • Everyone
  • Temper

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Different
  • Live
  • Action

• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Business
  • College
  • Understood

• Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Dance

• As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Certain

• Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Real

• It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

  

  William Stafford
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Secret