William Faulkner Quotes

You can't. You just have to.

William Faulkner

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• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • School
  • Fear
  • Gun

• I just want to compete and do what I love.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Love
  • Want
  • Just

• The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Power

• From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

  

  Frederick Douglass

• Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • May
  • Action

• I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Childhood

• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Doe
  • Determine

• I love the road trip. It was one of the original justifications to make the movie. So I want the movie to earn that road trip. And to me, that means calibrate it so that the fourth side of that double CD set is set up properly and it all makes sense.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Movie
  • Sense
  • Trip

• It has to hurt Miami, as effective as the two back rotation was for them last year. Ronnie looked to be a guy who could handle more responsibility and now he'll have the chance. But it's such a shame. After all the work Ricky put in and all the work the Dolphins put into him, it's sad for a guy who seemed to have his act back together.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Work
  • Together
  • Guy

• The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Money
  • Service

• The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Time
  • She
  • Firsts

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  

  Jim Moran
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Swimming

• In all abundance there is lack.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Abundance
  • Lack

• I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Country
  • Team
  • Player

• Real political will for change is achieved when the risks associated with the necessary political and structural changes are articulated at the planning stages, the key stakeholders acknowledge and accept those changes, and all stakeholders participate in the relevant processes.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Necessary
  • Achieved
  • Relevant

• Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

  

  Socrates
  • Sometimes
  • See
  • Have

• You can't. You just have to.

  

  William Faulkner
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  • Cant