Liz Williams Quotes

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

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• I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • Day

• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Kitchen

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Two
  • Test

• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Expectations

• The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Country
  • Insurance
  • Market

• Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Why
  • Need
  • One Word

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

  

  Sam Riley
  • People
  • School
  • Acting

• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Acceptance
  • Inflation

• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Friends
  • Mean
  • Best

• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Together
  • Energy

• Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Power
  • Evil

• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Done
  • Literature

• Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in 'explaining' symptoms of an illness.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• I'm aware of what my effect on the populous could be, and I try to use it in a positive way, whether it be in an Instagram post or a tweet, or promoting whatever new job that I have. I don't figure too much as a Latino man coming up, or a certain ethnic man. I'm very, very proud of being a Mexican-American man, but I would rather people just see me as a man coming up who just happens to be Mexican.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Proud

• To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Book
  • Sales

• My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

  

  Mark Leyner
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

  

  Liz Williams