Bill Withers Quotes

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

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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 efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Financial
  • Efficiency

• 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

• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Soldiers
  • Philosophers
  • Businessmen

• We figured they'd try it again, and they did. Only this time, instead of staying with our men, we switched off.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Try
  • Did
  • They

• I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • World
  • Justice
  • Diversity

• Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mind
  • Moments

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

  

  Bill Withers
  • Darkness
  • Sunshine