William Faulkner Quotes

No one individual can tell the truth.

William Faulkner

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Humanity

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Perfect
  • Courage

• The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Strong

• When we talk of a resurgent Asia, people think of the great changes that have come about in Shanghai. I share this aspiration to transform Mumbai in the next five years in such a manner that people would forget about Shanghai and Mumbai will become a talking point.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Great

• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Life

• My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I was very political when JFK ran.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Political

• I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Work
  • Depression

• Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Funny
  • Hilarious

• I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Question
  • Tombstone

• The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Culture
  • Wanted
  • Media

• I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Rock
  • Star

• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• No one individual can tell the truth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Individual