William Faulkner Quotes

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

William Faulkner

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• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I am an economist, not an astrologer.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Economist
  • Astrologer

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Choice

• I was a horrible student.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Student
  • Horrible

• Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • You
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • True
  • Free

• My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Like
  • Fans

• The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Best
  • Agency
  • Morale

• Mes amis, l’amour est cent fois meilleur que la haine. L’espoir est meilleur que la peur. L’optimisme est meilleur que le désespoir. Alors aimons, gardons espoir et restons optimistes. Et nous changerons le monde.

  

  Jack Layton

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government as vigorously as I possibly can.

  

  Arthur Scargill
  • Power
  • Attitude

• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Single
  • Magic

• Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Vision

• Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

  

  Bernice King
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Country
  • Teacher

• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Men
  • Home
  • Kind

• All is flux, nothing is stationary.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Stationary
  • Flux

• With 'Grimm,' it's a lot of fun for me to be able to play within the familiar world of fairy tales. As for satisfying my inner fantasy geek, anything that would have me wielding a sword or shooting a bow would be a dream.

  

  Sasha Roiz
  • Dream
  • Fantasy
  • Fairytale

• A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Dream
  • Gods
  • Conscience