Bill Vaughan Quotes

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

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

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

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.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

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

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers ...

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

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

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

Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

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.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

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.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias ...

I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

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.

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.

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

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.

Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

A silly row which got out of hand.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

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.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing
that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart
is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.

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

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

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.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

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.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

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

So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

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.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

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

If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure
we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.

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

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.