William Faulkner Quotes

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

William Faulkner

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• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Literature

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Painting

• They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Bible
  • Meaning
  • Searching

• You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Friends
  • Want
  • You

• Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Know
  • Change

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Him
  • Seriously

• If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

  

  Fat Joe
  • You
  • Know
  • Gay

• You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Step

• My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Parents
  • Road
  • Dance

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Will
  • Twitter
  • Million

• The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Artist

• I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • You
  • Wall

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...

  

  E. B. White
  • Devil
  • Mood

• You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Good
  • Power
  • Nature

• A great book is like great evil.

  

  Callimachus
  • Book
  • Evil

• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Evil
  • Changes
  • Fame