Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes

The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

Anthony Douglas Williams

• Life
• Believe
• Enough
• Miracle

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• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Age
  • Me
  • Attention

• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Changes

• Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Bad
  • Door
  • Calm

• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Keep
  • Promises

• To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Curiosity

• Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Wisdom

• Never, dear father, love can be,Like the dear love I had for thee!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Father

• Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Losers must have leave to speak.

  

  Colley Cibber

• You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Running
  • Friend
  • Joy

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• I can't hide my feelings.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Feelings
  • Hide

• Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

  

  C. S. Lewis

• 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

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Enough