William B. Travis Quotes

I shall never surrender or retreat.

William B. Travis

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• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Way

• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  

  C. Lloyd Morgan
  • May
  • Action
  • Animal

• However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Time
  • Children
  • May

• We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Years
  • Arthritis

• Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Language
  • Existence
  • Human being

• It looks good. I think the dog will be happy.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Happy
  • Dog

• Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Long
  • Worst
  • Negative

• I believe the only way to break the power of materialism is first, to see ourselves as stewards that God has entrusted these money and possessions to, and second, to give. Jesus says, "It is more blessed to give than to receive". As long as I still have something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish the control, power, and prestige that come with wealth.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Way

• For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Leader

• I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Play
  • Firsts
  • Combination

• I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Skills
  • Broadway
  • Sharpening

• If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.

  

  Cher Wang
  • Vision
  • Process
  • Everything

• We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.

  

  April Ross
  • Far
  • Volleyball
  • Stalked

• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  

  Clare Short
  • Globalization
  • Favor
  • Sun Rises

• There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Man
  • Destiny

• How strange to have a body. Sometimes it felt that way. Strange.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Way
  • Strange

• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Moved a Lot

• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Surrender
  • In Love
  • Human Spirit

• If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

  

  Michael Bisping
  • Drugs
  • Performances
  • Banned

• I shall never surrender or retreat.

  

  William B. Travis
  • Surrender
  • Retreat