William H. Hastie Quotes

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

William H. Hastie

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Look
  • Run
  • Trees

• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • Become

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Poetry

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I do not follow superstitions on court.

  

  Ana Ivanovic

• I am a United States citizen and I vote.

  

  Martha Plimpton

• When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Life

• It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

  

  Cynthia McKinney
  • Why
  • Silence

• And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

  

  John Rowland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Support

• I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Pretty
  • Confident
  • Urge

• Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Love
  • Power
  • Thing

• May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

  

  Plato
  • Rich
  • Prudent
  • Portion

• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  

  William Blake
  • Heart
  • Fears
  • Traveller

• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Good
  • Music
  • Men

• There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Humans
  • Achievement
  • Approach