Willard Motley Quotes

#1. The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

Nancy B. Brewer

#2. People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

David Brudnoy

#3. In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

Guy Debord

#5. I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

Nick Hornby

#6. One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.

Giorgio Agamben

#7. I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

Tom Felton

#8. It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

Mary McCarthy

#9. The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Oscar Wilde

#10. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't. It took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Bill Gates

#11. Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

B.R. Ambedkar

#12. Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.

Vivek Wadhwa