William Paley Quotes

#1. God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

William S. Paley

#2. It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.

Mark Hart

#3. Follow me down before anyone else gets show. Especially before I get shot, 'cause that would just ruin an otherwise nice day. (Jack)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.

Michael Nava

#5. Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium.

William S. Paley

#6. My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Tamara Tunie

#7. In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

#8. Who can refute a sneer?

William Paley

#9. Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.

Rick Warren

#10. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. Horizontal" control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved.
"Vertical" control, in contrast, manages thinking up and down the track of individual topics and projects.

David Allen

#12. What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

William S. Paley

#13. I'm not only passionate about dressing women and helping them feel and look their best, but also about helping to give a stronger voice to women and children in need around the world.

Rachel Roy

#14. But there was change in the air, and whether for good or ill, change always quickens the pulse and sharpens the senses.

Karen Engelmann

#15. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Dale Carnegie

#16. Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.

Lewis H. Lapham

#17. White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

William S. Paley

#18. The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

John Adams

#19. He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

William S. Paley

#20. A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Fred Hoyle

#21. What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

#22. I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

Jackie Chan

#23. Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

Kevin Costner

#24. There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

William Paley