J.M. Williams Quotes

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

A must have for women? Confidence! Be yourself!

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

I found the secret of life to be body placement.

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.