D. W. Wilson Quotes

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Healthy people live with their world.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Use plants to bring life.

Don't talk about yourself it will be done when you leave.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

My work should be seen as poetry.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.