William Faulkner Quotes

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

William Faulkner

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Best

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Eating

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Love
  • Warm

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Think
  • You
  • Thoughts

• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

  

  E. B. White
  • Great
  • Wonder
  • Choices

• God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• But what about the sufferings of the innocent? Worst of all is the hell that exists in the special psychiatric clinics in Dnieperopetrovsk, Sytshevk, Blagoveshensk, Kazan, Chernakovsk, Oriol, Leningrad, Tashkent, … .

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Innocent

• I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mirror

• The two things you can't fake are good food and good music.

  

  Etta James
  • Food
  • Fake
  • Good Music

• I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Fun
  • Opinions
  • Dumber

• The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• For us to win a VMA without even dropping our first album was kind of amazing. It felt like a dream, and then I woke up the next morning like, 'Oh my God - I've got a Moonman!'

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Dream
  • First Album
  • Moonman

• A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Dream
  • Hurt
  • Safe