Wally Byam (Wallace Merle Byam) Quotes

Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

Wally Byam

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• I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • World
  • Explore

• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Twitter
  • Awkward

• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Hell
  • Lord

• There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Will
  • Cooperation

• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Drama

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fate
  • Decisions
  • Survive

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Love
  • House
  • Black

• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Never
  • Either
  • Acted

• People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Time
  • Reading

• My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Wind

• Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Kids
  • True
  • Evidence

• I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Leave
  • Page
  • Background

• I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Games
  • Kid
  • Point

• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Party

• Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements resulting from the WPA which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • Possession
  • Communities
  • Improvements

• Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

  

  Wally Byam
  • Changes
  • Improvements