William DeWitt Hyde Quotes

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

William DeWitt Hyde

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• Desire
• Growth
• Optimist
• Pessimism

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Dreams

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • You
  • Environment
  • Find

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Tax

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Potential

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.

  

  Taliesin
  • Bitter

• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Mother
  • Fear

• The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Up
  • World

• The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Bad
  • Black

• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Good
  • Control
  • Spiritual

• I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Feeling

• You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

  

  John Slattery
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Opportunity
  • Desire
  • Growth