Top 423 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Vaughan - Page 5

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
Where God is, all agree.
Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy — © Bill Vaughan
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Vote in a national election.
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman. — © Bill Vaughan
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
I could live a week on one good compliment.
I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.
One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.
Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work. — © Bill Vaughan
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life. — © Bill Vaughan
The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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