Best William Wharton Quotes

#1. Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

William Wharton

#2. Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

William Wharton

#3. Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that he'd forgotten the beauty of his world.

Susan Fanetti

#4. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

#5. It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

William H. Wharton

#6. In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

William H. Wharton

#7. should tell you, the job description was super-vague and that I am probably not at all qualified to do any technical stuff. I made something explode in chemistry last year.

C.B. Lee

#8. Things come apart much easier than they go together.

William Wharton

#9. Content dictates form and style.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Cao Cao

#11. I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

William H. Wharton

#12. The future of aviation human factors lies primarily with the discipline of individual flyers, not high-powered training programs, 3D simulation, or advanced technology aircraft.

Tony Kern

#13. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

William Wharton

#14. I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

#15. What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

William Wharton

#16. I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

Nathan Lowell

#17. I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

Malalai Joya

#18. Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

William H. Wharton

#19. There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

William Wharton

#20. Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

William Wharton

#21. Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

#22. Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.

William Wharton

#23. What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

William Wharton

#24. People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

William Wharton

#25. The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

William H. Wharton

#26. In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

William H. Wharton

#27. Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Barbara Amiel