Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes

Mankind must cease harming the harmless.

Anthony Douglas Williams

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• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• 'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dark

• Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Cameras
  • Seductive
  • Available

• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bones
  • Spot
  • Tread

• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Society
  • Fabric
  • Woven

• The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Awake
  • Common World
  • Private Worlds

• All is flux; nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Still
  • Flux

• Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Politics
  • Legacy
  • Phase

• This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Problem
  • Mankind
  • Solved

• The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Race
  • Rate
  • Barriers

• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Question
  • Mankind
  • Pleasant

• I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Age
  • Mankind
  • Modern

• Mankind must cease harming the harmless.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Mankind
  • Cease
  • Harmless