William Deresiewicz Quotes

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

William Deresiewicz

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• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Walking
  • Victory

• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Understanding

• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Population
  • Prisons
  • Jails

• Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Small
  • Opinion
  • Benefit

• When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• No Such Thing as Bad Results.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Results

• You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Honor

• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  

  William Powell
  • inspirational
  • Friendship
  • Quiet

• It's a very difficult position to be in personally. It's uncomfortable to be opposing a non-profit organization that is doing restoration projects.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Organization
  • Projects
  • Restoration

• Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Darkness
  • Loneliness
  • Robbed

• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Daughter
  • Gentleman
  • Gentlema`s

• The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Important
  • Today
  • Government

• As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Members

• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

  

  William Deresiewicz
  • Impulse
  • Certainty
  • Trial