William Mathews Quotes

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

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• Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Play
  • Serious
  • Drama

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Fighting
  • Human
  • Cancer

• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Best

• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Joy

• From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Art
  • America

• I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Hurt

• If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

  

  David Autor
  • Job

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Money
  • Spiritual
  • Military

• io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Time
  • Famous

• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  

  Preston Sturges

• I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Time
  • Long
  • Forever

• In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

  

  John Dobbin
  • Time
  • Question
  • Ignore

• A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

  

  Al Hirt
  • Style

• I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

  

  Adele
  • Time
  • Why
  • Happy

• Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Philosophy
  • Transformation
  • Human Thought

• I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Career
  • Motorcycle

• It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

  

  William Mathews
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Difficulty