Irvetta Williams Quotes

#1. The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

H.G.Wells

#2. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

Jodie Whittaker

#3. Carlin does a rare thing for a self-help book: gives useful guidance by supplying readers with the tools necessary for change." --Barry Silverstein, "Foreword Reviews

Barry Silverstein

#4. Money they got at their wedding. She watched The

Jodi Picoult

#5. We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Thomas Friedman

#6. His red-haired companion wore a similar outfit but without the tattoo and piercings, lacking the courage - or the idiocy - to turn a fashion statement into permanent disfigurement. They

Kelley Armstrong

#7. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.

Jeff Sessions

#9. Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

#10. Nature never deceives us;
it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Scott Lynch

#11. We can't always know the whys and wherefores,' the old man said. 'A bird's given two wings, not four, because it can fly with two; so a man's not given to know everything, but only a half or a quarter. As much as he needs to know in order to live, so much he knows.

Anton Chekhov

#12. I would like a child to grow up to have a happy life and make a contribution to society. I don't mean to be a big scientist or something like that. How many people can do that? I think if you live a happy life and are a good person, that is a contribution to society.

Leslie T. Chang

#13. I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

Cliff Martinez

#14. It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

Ashton Eaton