William Weaks Morris (Willie Morris) Quotes

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

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• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Hard Work

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Soul
  • Song
  • You

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I've always been a dreamer.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Always
  • Been
  • Dreamer

• The dearest things I know are what you are.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Know
  • Things

• True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
  • Kind
  • Better

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Science
  • Logic

• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Thinking

• Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Army

• You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • Live
  • May

• When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • World
  • Home
  • Study

• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Development
  • Code
  • Spontaneous

• In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

  

  Teresa Palmer
  • Life
  • Real
  • Makeup

• His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

  

  William Weaks Morris
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  • Claim
  • Absorbed