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

• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

  

  William Halsey
  • Success
  • Action
  • Problem

• For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Humans
  • Common

• A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Marriage
  • Something

• From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• 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