William Woodruff Quotes

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

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• Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Deep
  • I Love You

• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • First
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Know
  • Presence

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Experience
  • American
  • Strong

• I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Chicago

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Like

• Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Cynicism
  • Skepticism
  • Quasi-intellectualism

• I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Lord
  • Appointments

• You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Opinion

• The stream is always purer at its source.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Source
  • Stream

• It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

  

  Wilbur Smith
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Person

• The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Culture
  • Government
  • Values

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Lives
  • Strangers
  • Foreign Lands

• It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

  

  William Woodruff
  • Morality
  • Determine
  • International