William Faulkner Quotes

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

William Faulkner

• Truth
• Compassion
• Afraid
• Change The Earth

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Done
  • Start

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
  • Georgia

• I'm fearless, to a degree.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Fearless
  • Degree

• The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Never
  • Son
  • France

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• 'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Heart

• I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Career
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Shoes

• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • May
  • Truth

• Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Men
  • Country
  • Truth

• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Compassion
  • Afraid