Bill Withers Quotes

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

Bill Withers

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• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Want
  • You
  • Opinion

• My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Life
  • Father
  • Parents

• Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Equality

• The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I see myself not as a leader but as somebody who initiates things or finds the problem or provokes a discussion. You have to be always ready to engage, willing to participate. When events or history happen, you just have to be aware and respond.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • History

• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Poverty

• I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I've always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it's the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I've gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• If it's a day to indulge, I like to have a burrito or a steak.

  

  Max Aaron

• The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • People

• The CIA maintains prepackaged stocks of foreign weapons for instant shipment anywhere in the world.

  

  John Stockwell
  • World

• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

  

  Max Muller
  • Live
  • Flower
  • Sunshine

• My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? 'Tempest o'er tempest roll'd' - still the 'darkness' is majestic.

  

  John Constable
  • Art
  • Sunshine
  • Canvas

• I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Lying

• Somehow, miraculously, they forced themselves, told themselves they were going to live. They wrote themselves new lives. Fictions, perhaps, but what did it matter? They had kept the chaos at bay. They had managed to stop cursing the darkness. They’d lit a torch.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Darkness
  • Chaos
  • Fictions

• There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Correspond

• Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Darkness
  • Sunshine