William Whiting Borden Quotes

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

William Whiting Borden

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• In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Hunger

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • School
  • Feeling
  • High School

• Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Survival
  • Neither

• I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Feel

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.

  

  Ovid

• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

  

  Alice Barrett
  • People
  • Support
  • Leaving

• You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Heart

• You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • World
  • America

• A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Heart
  • Leadership
  • Organization

• We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

  

  Alexander Kluge
  • Writing

• I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Believe
  • Things
  • I Want

• Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Long
  • Way
  • Heaven

• Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Girl
  • Evil
  • Wall

• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • True
  • Perfect

• Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.

  

  Darnell M. Hunt
  • People
  • Reality
  • Helping

• If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

  

  William Whiting Borden
  • Christian
  • inspirational
  • Helping