Top 100 Bill Vaughan Quotes
#1. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Bill Vaughan
#2. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.
Bill Vaughan
#3. If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Bill Vaughan
#4. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan
#5. Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
Bill Vaughan
#6. It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Bill Vaughan
#8. These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
Bill Vaughan
#9. I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.
Bill Vaughan
#10. An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Bill Vaughan
#11. Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
Bill Vaughan
#12. Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
Bill Vaughan
#13. Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
Bill Vaughan
#14. A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
#15. The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
Bill Vaughan
#16. There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
Bill Vaughan
#17. I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
Bill Vaughan
#18. Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
Bill Vaughan
#19. O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
Bill Vaughan
#20. One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Bill Vaughan
#21. 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
Bill Vaughan
#22. Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
Bill Vaughan
#23. If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
Bill Vaughan
#24. How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
Bill Vaughan
#25. Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
Bill Vaughan
#26. The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.
Bill Vaughan
#27. The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
Bill Vaughan
#28. Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
Bill Vaughan
#29. In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
Bill Vaughan
#30. People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Bill Vaughan
#31. The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Bill Vaughan
#32. I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more
Bill Vaughan
#33. The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
Bill Vaughan
#35. Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Bill Vaughan
#36. That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
Bill Vaughan
#37. It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
Bill Vaughan
#38. A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
#39. The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Bill Vaughan
#40. I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.
Bill Vaughan
#41. Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
Bill Vaughan
#42. We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Bill Vaughan
#43. It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
Bill Vaughan
#44. If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan
#45. I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Bill Vaughan
#46. As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
Bill Vaughan
#47. The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.
Bill Vaughan
#48. SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
Bill Vaughan
#49. It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
Bill Vaughan
#50. The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
Bill Vaughan
#51. How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
Bill Vaughan
#52. Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
Bill Vaughan
#53. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#55. The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
Bill Vaughan
#57. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#58. The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
Bill Vaughan
#59. When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
Bill Vaughan
#60. Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
Bill Vaughan
#61. Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.
Bill Vaughan
#62. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#63. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#64. Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Bill Vaughan
#65. Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.
Bill Vaughan
#66. My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment ... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan
#67. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#68. All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
Bill Vaughan
#69. Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
Bill Vaughan
#70. A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
Bill Vaughan
#71. Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
Bill Vaughan
#72. You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
Bill Vaughan
#73. There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
Bill Vaughan
#75. If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
Bill Vaughan
#76. Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away ... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
Bill Vaughan
#77. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Bill Vaughan
#79. What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
Bill Vaughan
#80. A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan
#81. As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.
Bill Vaughan
#82. Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
Bill Vaughan
#83. Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Bill Vaughan
#84. Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
Bill Vaughan
#85. Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
#86. There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
Bill Vaughan
#87. It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
Bill Vaughan
#88. Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.
Bill Vaughan
#89. The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
#90. Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
Bill Vaughan
#91. The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
Bill Vaughan
#92. A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
Bill Vaughan
#93. Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
Bill Vaughan
#94. Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
Bill Vaughan
#95. We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.
Bill Vaughan
#96. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#97. He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
Bill Vaughan
#98. Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
Bill Vaughan
#99. It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
Bill Vaughan
#100. American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
Bill Vaughan
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
