William Meade Quotes

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.

William Meade

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• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Art
  • Government

• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • House
  • Kind
  • Wood

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Record
  • Grow
  • Comfortable

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

  

  Faith Evans
  • Time
  • Family
  • Bad

• I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • School
  • Shooting
  • Tutors

• Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Kind
  • Travel

• I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Free
  • Law
  • Golf

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Year

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Imperfection

• He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Memorable
  • Australia

• When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.

  

  Hank Greenwald
  • Goal
  • Ambition
  • Think About

• Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.

  

  Bill Raftery
  • Business
  • Job
  • Head

• Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Facts
  • Cost
  • Subjects

• The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.

  

  William Meade
  • Body
  • Gymnastics
  • Factors