Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes

Life is the best teacher.

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Plays

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Poverty

• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • Art

• I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Look

• There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Life

• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that's one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There's a big population that buys our trucks. It's their life - or it's their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It's a work truck.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Life
  • Work
  • America

• That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Blow

• I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life

• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.

  

  Lew Brown
  • Life
  • Free

• The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Life
  • Feeling

• The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Wisdom

• Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

  

  James Buchan
  • Trying

• We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Effort

• Life is the best teacher.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Life
  • Teacher