Top 100 Ow Wilson Quotes
#1. Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country "an eternal pregnancy"; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.
G. Willow Wilson
#2. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.
Douglas Wilson
#3. I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.
Casey Wilson
#4. The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?
E. O. Wilson
#5. Each of the humans chests are always rising and falling; and they sway minutely in place as they perform a constant balancing act to stay bipedal.
Daniel H. Wilson
#6. How could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#7. We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people will pass us. They will grow and meet others who are young and strong and they will feel as if they are part of the very beginning of life.
N.D. Wilson
#8. Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
Tom Wilson
#9. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
Edward O. Wilson
#10. They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless - but on which side of the border?
James Gleick
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Jacqueline Wilson
#13. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...
Woodrow Wilson
#14. When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
Mara Wilson
#15. One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#17. I had to cope with her right from when I was little, I looked after her and you.
Jacqueline Wilson
#18. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#19. I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
Casey Wilson
#20. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
Colin Wilson
#23. To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
Earl Wilson
#24. I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers
N.D. Wilson
#25. All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.
Rebel Wilson
#26. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#27. When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.
Janet Wilson
#28. I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
Brian Wilson
#29. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#30. Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.
Rita Wilson
#31. It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
Robert Charles Wilson
#32. Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
Jacqueline Wilson
#33. I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Robert Charles Wilson
#35. There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.
Daniel H. Wilson
#36. A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
Woodrow Wilson
#37. Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.
Russell Wilson
#38. I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.
C. J. Wilson
#39. It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
Luke Wilson
#40. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.
Mara Wilson
#41. I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.
Woodrow Wilson
#42. Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.
Rebel Wilson
#43. Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
Earl Wilson
#44. One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
Woodrow Wilson
#45. We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
Woodrow Wilson
#46. A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.
William Julius Wilson
#47. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#49. To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Woodrow Wilson
#50. This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
Harold Wilson
#51. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
Ruth Wilson
#52. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#53. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
#54. Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
Daniel H. Wilson
#55. Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Robert Charles Wilson
#56. If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.
Dennis Wilson
#57. There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
Douglas Wilson
#58. The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson
#59. Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson
#60. Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.
G. Willow Wilson
#61. 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Rainn Wilson
#63. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Casey Wilson
#64. I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train ... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.
Woodrow Wilson
#65. The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.
Alan Wilson
#66. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
Bill Wilson
#67. The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ...
H.L. Mencken
#68. There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
G. Willow Wilson
#69. In life we all go through things, but its how you come out of it that matters
Tonya Wilson
#70. It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
Daniel H. Wilson
#71. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
Fred Wilson
#73. True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path that's our own, through an ideological valley whose landmarks have already been described and claimed by others.
Nicolas Wilson
#74. My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
Robert Wilson
#75. As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
Woodrow Wilson
#76. When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.
Flip Wilson
#78. They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.
Douglas Wilson
#79. Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.
Tom Wilson
#80. Hugging your cat can make you very happy, provided she doesn't scratch you.
Wilson Villanueva
#81. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#82. TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.
David Pietrusza
#83. You're making movies for 15 years and now people are like, 'You're the AT&T guy.'
Luke Wilson
#84. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson
#85. You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
Robert Anton Wilson
#88. People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
Daniel H. Wilson
#89. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
Ann Wilson
#90. Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#91. Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.
G. Willow Wilson
#92. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#93. Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
N.D. Wilson
#94. I generally assumed a guy was gay until proven straight, taken until proven single, and not interested until he'd put his tongue in my mouth.
Mara Wilson
#95. Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.
E. O. Wilson
#96. Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.
Robert Wilson
#97. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
Edgar Wilson Nye
#98. What was striking about Ms. Wilson, and was also true of the other outsiders who volunteered their time that day, was that she spoke to us prisoners with great respect, as if our lives ahead had hope and meaning and possibility. After all these months at Danbury, this was a shocking novelty.
Piper Kerman
#99. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.
Sumner Wilson
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