William Strunk, Jr. Quotes

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• 'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Play
  • England
  • French

• There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Nothing

• I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that!

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up

• I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible because she'd been through the loss of her sister, this horrible accident at Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to make her understand that I didn't want her to be untruthful to the grand jury and if her memory was different than mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So that's all I remember.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Different
  • Trying
  • She

• Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • May
  • Moments
  • Two

• As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.

  

  Roman Reigns
  • Hate
  • Laugh
  • Critic

• An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Democracy
  • Educated
  • Editors

• I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Work

• I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Choices

• I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Habit
  • Devil
  • Being Right

• The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Weak
  • Built
  • Adjectives