Walter Wriston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
-
I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
-
I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
-
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
-
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
-
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
-
I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
-
When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
-
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
-
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
-
Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
-
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
-
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
-
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
-
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
-
You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
-
If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.
-
The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
