William Faulkner Quotes

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

William Faulkner

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Hungry

• It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Job
  • Help

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Ugly

• I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Free

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Vision

• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
  • Important
  • Teach

• The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Organization

• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • Mental

• Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Follow

• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Rest
  • Authority
  • Analysis

• I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • World
  • Age
  • Feeling

• At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Cold

• We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Memory

• It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Great
  • Political
  • Action

• Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Air

• There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Done

• The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Fall
  • Human Condition
  • Human Reason

• Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Air
  • Fail
  • Sounds