Top 423 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Vaughan - Page 7

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.

I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

Letters should be easy and natural.

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

A nation has character only when it is free.

Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.

The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

There are people in many other states who are cheering us.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

You only get to keep what you give away.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.