J.P.R. Williams Quotes

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

A kind heart speaks kind words.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.

Im the glue that holds everything together.

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

Words at night were feral things.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

I hear the weed is really strong in California.

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me