Top 100 S.j. Watson Quotes
#1. Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.
John S. Watson
#2. It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
James D. Watson
#3. When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.
Bubba Watson
#4. Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.
Thomas Watson
#5. The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson
#7. I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
Kara Hayward
#8. Chrissy," she said. Her voice was quiet, measured. I thought I detected something in it, some new emotion. Fear. "Describe Ben to me.
S.J. Watson
#9. I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.
Emma Watson
#10. I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.
Barry Watson
#11. It's perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them.
S.J. Watson
#12. Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat.
Peter Matthiessen
#13. Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself!
Emma Watson
#14. I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.
Emily Watson
#15. Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.
Donald Watson
#16. I wonder what I would find if I could go back and decipher the layers, if it were possible to delve into my past that way, but realize that, even if it were possible, it would be futile.
S.J. Watson
#17. Lilly's something old was the love her husband-to-be had carried in his heart since he was just a boy. Her something new was the renewel of that love. Something blue was ever second they would ever be apart. There was nothing borrowed. Everything from here on out was for keeps.
Jan Watson
#18. I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
Emma Watson
#19. The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
Thomas Watson
#20. I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
Emma Watson
#21. It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
Emily Watson
#22. It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#23. This is dying everyday. Over and over.
S.J. Watson
#25. I will never abandon you. I love you too much.
S.J. Watson
#26. The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.
Diane Watson
#27. The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.
Thomas Watson
#28. Gossip's like jam; it don't bear fruit if you don't spread it.
Jan Watson
#29. Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
Paul Watson
#30. That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't ... it wouldn't.
Ian Watson
#31. If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this.
Paul Watson
#32. Let's invent "do nothing" days, where there is no plan and no structured play. Let's ensure that kids get bored every so often and have to use their imaginations to invent ways to escape.
Richard Watson
#33. I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.
S.J. Watson
#34. People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.
Emma Watson
#35. The little things. Perhaps it is these trivialities I have been writing down in my book, these small hooks on which my whole life is hung.
S.J. Watson
#36. You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
Emma Watson
#37. Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.
Emma Watson
#38. Two wrongs don't make anything right, but maybe they make things more equal.
S.J. Watson
#39. I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#40. He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?
Jude Watson
#41. We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was.
S.J. Watson
#42. Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again.
S.J. Watson
#43. I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep.
S.J. Watson
#44. I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.
Tom Watson
#45. When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.
Thomas Watson
#46. Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.
Emma Watson
#47. Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.
Emily Watson
#49. Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Paul Watson
#50. Odd, said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, 'the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense.
Winifred Watson
#51. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
Tom Peters
#52. these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal.
S.J. Watson
#53. Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
John S. Watson
#55. Instead, thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance. I
S.J. Watson
#56. I couldn't imagine how i would get from here to there. i couldn't imagine living through a whole string of identical days.
S.J. Watson
#57. I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
S.J. Watson
#58. I think of my sponsor. Rachel. "Addiction is a patient disease," she said to me once. "It'll wait for your whole life, if it has to. Never forget that.
S.J. Watson
#59. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#60. Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?
S.J. Watson
#61. I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal.
That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.
S.J. Watson
#62. We're wearing masks, all of us, all of the time. We're presenting a face, a version of ourselves, to the world, to each other. We show a different face depending on who we're with and what they expect of us. Even when we're alone it's just another mask, the version of ourselves we'd prefer to be.
S.J. Watson
#63. She said that you and Ben were separated. Ben left you. A year or so after you moved to Waring House." "Separated?" I said. It felt as if the room was receding, becoming vanishingly small. Disappearing.
S.J. Watson
#64. I saw his eyes go up and he looked past me, toward the door, as if he were watching it, waiting. But there was no one there, it did not open, no one left or came in. I wondered if he was actually dreaming of escape.
S.J. Watson
#65. I am frightened to discover my past. What I have achieved, and what I have not.
S.J. Watson
#66. Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.
S.J. Watson
#67. His grief is not new. It has had the time to bed down within him, to become part of his foundations, rather than something that rocks them.
S.J. Watson
#68. I guess sometimes it's not so much about how long you've known someone, but about what you've been through together.
S.J. Watson
#69. I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the moment when guilt and the certainty that things must go no further gives way to lust and the certainty that they cannot stop.
S.J. Watson
#70. We are in a restaurant, smilling, leaning in over a half-eaten meal, our faces flushed with love and thr bite of the sun.
S.J. Watson
#71. The hands on the shoulder, then the hug.The mouths that find each other through the tears.
S.J. Watson
#73. Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.
J.R. Watson
#74. I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body.
S.J. Watson
#75. Do you trust me?
The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
S.J. Watson
#76. He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered.
S.J. Watson
#77. Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.
S.J. Watson
#78. Why did he feel that wanting to make sense of my fractured life meant that I wanted to change it in some way?
S.J. Watson
#79. Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
#80. Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.
S.J. Watson
#81. There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream.
S.J. Watson
#82. It's not life, it's just an existence, jumping from one moment to the next with no idea of the past, and no plan for the future.
S.J. Watson
#83. I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
S.J. Watson
#84. I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.
S.J. Watson
#85. But, I realized, these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal. I
S.J. Watson
#87. It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
S.J. Watson
#88. Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.
S.J. Watson
#89. We sat opposite each other across a table that swam with spilled coffee, warming our hands on our drinks.
S.J. Watson
#90. With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.
S.J. Watson
#91. And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.
S.J. Watson
#92. I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
S.J. Watson
#93. There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.
S.J. Watson
#94. There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
S.J. Watson
#95. I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.
S.J. Watson
#96. He put his hand on mine. I fell into him, knowing what he would do, what he must do, and he did. He opened his arms and held me, and I let him embrace me. "It's okay," he said. "It's okay.
S.J. Watson
#97. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
S.J. Watson
#98. She looks so young, so hungry, her eyes full of possibility, of what is in store for her.
S.J. Watson
#99. I asked for this, I thought, at the same time as I never asked for this. Is it possible to both
want and not want something at the same time?
S.J. Watson
#100. How will I feel when I look in a mirror and see the reflection of my grandmother?
S.J. Watson
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