Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

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• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Just
  • News
  • Boring

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • People
  • Study
  • Brother

• Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Control
  • Stop

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Alone
  • Philosophical

• There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Attention

• My first flight was in my early 20s, from New York City to Los Angeles, to shoot a Cherry 7-UP commercial.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Up
  • City

• People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Good

• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Control
  • Drug

• Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Up

• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • May
  • True

• The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Believe
  • Family
  • School

• I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Writing
  • Hard

• Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.

  

  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
  • Soul
  • Inspiration
  • Grace

• My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan

• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Enough
  • Harmony
  • Cynicism

• The soul of man createth its own destiny.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Destiny