William Wake Quotes

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

William Wake

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• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Music
  • Country
  • Thing

• We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Study
  • Poise
  • Passer

• I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

  

  Weegee
  • City
  • Lying
  • Cities

• Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Work
  • Integrity

• For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Ifs

• The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Running
  • Facts

• Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Beautiful
  • Problems
  • Intelligent

• Prism! Where is that baby?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Baby
  • Prism

• Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mad

• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Rules

• Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • War
  • Future
  • Peace

• I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.

  

  Tairrie B
  • Thinking
  • Lines
  • Draws

• The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Law
  • Gun
  • Guilty

• Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • Feels
  • Knows
  • Cinematography

• Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

  

  William Wake
  • Reason
  • Knows
  • Conditions