William H. Whyte Quotes

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

William H. Whyte

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Pain
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Opinions
  • Serve

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

  

  Ben Browder
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Attention
  • Mean

• I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.

  

  King Tuff
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Personality

• When you win the toss - bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague then bat.

  

  W. G. Grace
  • Thinking
  • Winning
  • Doubt

• We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

  

  Brian Harvey
  • Money

• People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

  

  William H. Whyte
  • People
  • Different
  • Arguing