William Arthur Dunkerley Quotes

For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.

William Arthur Dunkerley

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• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fall

• The worst thing was having to go to school on days "Mensch, Pia!" would be on TV in the evening. My classmates made fun of me.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • School
  • Fun
  • TV

• We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Sound

• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • People
  • House
  • Political

• If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • Honor
  • Side
  • Afflicted

• Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Opinion

• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Things
  • Look

• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Life

• How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Memories
  • Firsts

• I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Remember
  • Play
  • Church

• We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.

  

  Alice Kuipers
  • Control
  • Lives
  • Take

• The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Accomplish

• For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.

  

  William Arthur Dunkerley
  • Firsts
  • Breaths