Top 100 Wilkinson Quotes
#1. Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
Peter Matthiessen
#2. ( ... ) I headed over the river to the address listed on Mr Wilkinson's driving licence to see whether there was anyone who loved him enough to kill him.
Ben Aaronovitch
#3. Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.
Misty Copeland
#4. I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.
Jordan Gavaris
#5. Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.
Agatha Christie
#6. It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does ... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts
Nick Faldo
#7. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
Kendra Wilkinson
#8. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
Jonny Wilkinson
#9. I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.
Howard Wilkinson
#10. It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
Tom Wilkinson
#12. I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#13. When we ask for God's blessing, we're not asking for more of what we could get for ourselves.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#14. In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Richard G. Wilkinson
#15. It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
Bruce Wilkinson
#17. It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.
Howard Wilkinson
#18. I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
Jonny Wilkinson
#19. I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
Kendra Wilkinson
#20. You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.
Bud Wilkinson
#21. Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
Bud Wilkinson
#22. The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.
Bud Wilkinson
#23. Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
Bud Wilkinson
#25. The stretch is registered by a sense organ embedded in the tendon
Matt Wilkinson
#26. We feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens
#27. How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances. It was one of the congenial labors of
William Cleaver Wilkinson
#28. I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
Laura Wilkinson
#29. I get to teach my daughter what I've learned. I don't want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I'll be so proud, because that's who I am, and that's a real person.
Kendra Wilkinson
#30. Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold onto the deadness that had blanketed her emotions for the past few days.
Lili Wilkinson
#32. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
Tom Wilkinson
#33. I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.
Bruce Wilkinson
#34. When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.
Bruce Wilkinson
#35. Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.
Bruce Wilkinson
#36. If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.
Howard Wilkinson
#37. O God and King, please expand my opportunities and my impact in such a way that I touch more lives for Your glory. Let me do more for You!
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#38. Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.
Kendra Wilkinson
#39. I'm sorry. Let me help you with those." I stood up quickly
and began to pick up the books she was carrying; she just sat
there rubbing her head.
"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly. I really hoped I didn't give
her a concussion; believe me, not the first time.
Sophie Wilkinson
#40. Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
Bud Wilkinson
#41. While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
Kendra Wilkinson
#42. I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
Jonny Wilkinson
#44. I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
Ellen Wilkinson
#45. Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#46. Those Aussie rugby fans are a bunch of sore losers. I hate 'em all.
Jonny Wilkinson
#47. We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
Bud Wilkinson
#48. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
Bud Wilkinson
#49. My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
#50. I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.
Jonny Wilkinson
#52. But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
Ellen Wilkinson
#53. Would you like to join me for a Meeting of Like Minds with Possible Romantic Consequences?
Lili Wilkinson
#54. By the end of summer, this trolley will be bursting with spuds. Like nature's own supermarket.
Lili Wilkinson
#55. Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.
Tom Wilkinson
#56. Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don't know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.
Bruce Wilkinson
#57. Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
Jonny Wilkinson
#58. Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
Bruce Wilkinson
#59. When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Jonny Wilkinson
#60. Maybe that's the nameless quality I'm always trying to pinpoint - it's not about how a horse looks, it's about how they make you feel. Nobody can put a finger on that.
Grace Wilkinson
#61. Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.
Alec Wilkinson
#62. Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
Kendra Wilkinson
#63. If the truth has already transformed the teacher, then the truth has a far greater chance of transforming the students.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#64. To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.
Bruce Wilkinson
#66. Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec Wilkinson
#68. One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
Alec Wilkinson
#69. For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#70. Your Father knows your gifts, your hindrances, and the condition you're in at every moment. And He also knows something you can't possibly know--every single person who's in desperate need of receiving His touch through you.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#71. The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.
Will Wilkinson
#73. Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?
Ernest L. Wilkinson
#74. Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.
Andy Wilkinson
#75. I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
Laura Wilkinson
#76. The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
Jonny Wilkinson
#78. Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.
Bud Wilkinson
#79. The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
Jonny Wilkinson
#80. The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.
Bruce Wilkinson
#83. It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!
Bruce Wilkinson
#84. I am doing enough to survive but it isn't the same as living.
Kerry Wilkinson
#85. I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson
#86. Simply put, God favors those who ask. He holds back nothing from those who want and earnestly long for what He wants.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#87. Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Ellen Wilkinson
#88. Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.
Jonny Wilkinson
#89. In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.
Andy Wilkinson
#90. When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
Bruce Wilkinson
#91. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.
Jonny Wilkinson
#92. I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
Laura Wilkinson
#93. Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.
Bud Wilkinson
#94. This episode of my life is brought to you by the letters W, t, and F. I do not understand.
Lili Wilkinson
#95. He peered up the ladder. In his young imagination, it must have reached the clouds.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#96. I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.
Lili Wilkinson
#97. My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
Ellen Wilkinson
#98. If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.
Bruce Wilkinson
#99. Home almost, at
least where words cut your lip & I spoke
you together & then back apart.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
