Quotes About William Pitt The Elder

#1. From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#4. A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Sinclair Lewis

#5. This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop,

Chris Matthews

#6. But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.

Irvine Welsh

#7. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.

Deyth Banger

#9. Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Roddy Doyle

#10. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.

Carmine Gallo

#11. When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

Clint Eastwood

#12. At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

Annette Messager

#13. The idea is that your clients are looking for good suggestions, and they don't mind sifting through some not-so-good ones as long as they're offered with good intentions and with no ego attached.

Patrick Lencioni