William B. Munro Quotes

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William B. Munro

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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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 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.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• 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.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Art

• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Falling In Love

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Night
  • Day

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Spring
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• 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.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Up

• That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • World
  • Country
  • Science

• With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

  

  Kavita Ramdas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Powerful

• Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts

• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• I take my title from the name the Jews have traditionally given the Roman Empire. You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows - pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being uncircumcised.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • May

• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Stock

• With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

  

  Kavita Ramdas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Powerful

• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

  

  William B. Munro
  • People
  • Appreciation
  • Average