
Top 82 Will Sumner Quotes
#1. He continued to stare. He stared at my neck, at my lips, and then took time to inspect my eyes. The energy between us was palpable . . . but, no. I had to be completely misreading the situation. This was precisely the danger of Will Sumner.
Christina Lauren
#2. The Danger of Will Sumner, I reminded myself. Everything he says sounds filthy, and now you're thinking of him naked. Again.
Christina Lauren
#3. Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.
Christina Lauren
#4. All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
William Graham Sumner
#6. I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.
Mickey Sumner
#7. I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Charles Sumner
#9. Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.
Charles Sumner
#10. There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
William Graham Sumner
#11. Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.
Samuel S. Sumner
#12. If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
Julius Sumner Miller
#13. The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
William Graham Sumner
#14. I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.
Mickey Sumner
#15. The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry.
Sumner Redstone
#16. We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
Sumner Redstone
#17. From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Charles Sumner
#18. A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner
#19. Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
Charles Sumner
#20. I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#21. I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.
Mickey Sumner
#22. I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
Mickey Sumner
#23. Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy.
Sumner Redstone
#24. The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.
Julius Sumner Miller
#25. Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.
William Graham Sumner
#26. The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.
William Graham Sumner
#27. If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.
Sumner Slichter
#28. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner
Ridley Pearson
#29. The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
Sumner Redstone
#30. Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
Charles Sumner
#31. The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us.
William Sumner
#32. For the love of God, Hanna, where are you?" he yelled.
Across the room she lowered her fruity drink, held up her hand decorated with a beautiful engagement ring, and called out, "Is that what this ring means? That I come to your rescue?"
He nodded fervently, shouting, "Yes!
Christina Lauren
#33. The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
Sumner Redstone
#34. The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
#35. If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will.
Christina Lauren
#36. I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.
Sumner Redstone
#37. I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.
Sumner Redstone
#38. If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
William Graham Sumner
#39. Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening, followed with intentional action - will clear the path for your miracles.
Sumner Davenport
#40. If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
William Graham Sumner
#41. There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
William Graham Sumner
#42. Jesus Christ, is everyone on something because I want some of whatever it is, Will grumbled, reaching for George's arm and looping it through his.
Christina Lauren
#43. It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
Sumner Redstone
#44. If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
William Graham Sumner
#45. Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner
#46. There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
Charles Sumner
#48. Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner
#49. In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#50. Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner
Ridley Pearson
#51. What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
William Graham Sumner
#52. The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
William Graham Sumner
#53. It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
William Graham Sumner
#55. When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.
Bernard Sumner
#57. I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
Mickey Sumner
#58. If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
William Graham Sumner
#59. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
Charles Sumner
#60. The more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)
Mary Sumner
#61. If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
William Graham Sumner
#62. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.
Sumner Wilson
#63. The investments we make in ourselves will always deliver the most profitable returns.
Sumner Davenport
#64. Your "Self" was created in the image and likeness of your creator. How can you believe that your "self" can be improved? Self improvement is contradictory to your creation.
Sumner Davenport
#65. I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#67. Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
William Graham Sumner
#69. It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.
Charles Sumner
#70. The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.
William Graham Sumner
#72. I can't wait for that one girl to come in and kick your feet from under you. You think you have things organized, sorted. [ ... ] When that one girl comes along, I'm going to say I told you so, and give you no bloody sympathy when you've turned into a lovesick strop.
Christina Lauren
#73. When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#74. Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only
William Graham Sumner
#75. Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
Sumner Redstone
#76. The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
William Graham Sumner
#77. I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
Sumner Redstone
#78. The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#79. People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#80. When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down.
Sumner Davenport
#81. It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
William Graham Sumner
#82. I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'
Mickey Sumner
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