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

• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Feel

• 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

• I've never been a very flashy person.

  

  Ana Ivanovic

• My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'

  

  Joel Grey
  • Father

• 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

• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • True

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

  

  Blake Lively
  • Heart

• The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Power
  • Free
  • Value

• Investing in women at home and abroad strengthens families, uplifts our children, improves health, makes communities and countries more peaceful, and brightens our collective future. Where women have equality, security, and the opportunity to live, work, and prosper, their families and societies are better off.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Women
  • Live

• To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Confident
  • Benefit
  • Mark

• Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Prayer
  • Place
  • Milk

• 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