William B. Munro Quotes
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.
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With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
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Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
