J.P.R. Williams Quotes

The hand of opposition is never exposed.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.