William Mountford Quotes

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

William Mountford

• Giving
• Sometimes
• Communication

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• Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Internet

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Model

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Search

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Giving
  • Health
  • Commitment

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Giving

• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Music
  • Communication

• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Good
  • Music
  • Personality

• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Walk

• I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Think
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• 'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Present

• The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the 'conventions' of the symbolic system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Communication

• When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Heart
  • Giving

• Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Process
  • Excellence

• Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • School
  • Bully
  • Oasis

• It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Impossible
  • Possible
  • Find It

• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

  

  William Mountford
  • Giving
  • Sometimes
  • Communication