Walter E. Williams Quotes
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
-
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
-
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
-
We've never been anti-Semitic.
-
Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
-
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
-
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
-
I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.
-
Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.
-
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
-
Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
-
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
-
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
-
I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
-
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
-
If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne.
-
I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
-
Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
-
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.
-
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
-
I find drinking really helps.
-
If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
-
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
