William Pitt Quotes

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

William Pitt

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
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• Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Visualize

• I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Country
  • Mind

• Sparrow: Oh my God. I'm a trained professional. I can't believe I didn't see it sooner! The mind games... the use of isolation... the accusations about being unfaithful... the obsessive keeping track... preventing the other person from getting a job... Stuart, we're in an abusive relationship with the Bush administration!

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what’s on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Mind
  • True

• Of course we know that an untroubled state of mind cannot last. So we say that inspiration comes and goes but really it is there all the time waiting for us to be untroubled again. We can therefore say that it is pervasive. Young children are more untroubled than adults and have many more inspirations.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Children

• There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

  

  Kristin Kreuk
  • Mind

• Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

  

  Paul Theroux
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• 'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.

  

  Jerry Hall
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  • Song

• I'm an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn't mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Mind
  • Heart
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• I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Car

• In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

  

  Drew Holcomb
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain. One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Truth

• No man knows himself as an original.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Knows
  • Original
  • No Man

• I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Knows
  • Physics

• The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Organization
  • New
  • Special

• What ardently we wish we soon believe.

  

  Edward Young
  • Believe
  • Wish

• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  

  William Pitt
  • Mind
  • Knows
  • Tyranny