William Pickens Quotes

#1. Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.

Joaquin Lowe

#2. Living together is an art.

William Pickens

#3. Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

Jim Rohn

#4. There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Bono

#5. Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice ... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

William Pickens

#6. Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

Max Barry

#7. To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

#8. I'm not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.

Rivka Galchen

#9. Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.

Julia Cameron

#10. An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

William Pickens

#11. It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

William Pickens

#12. When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Edmund Burke

#13. Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

Paul Bloom

#14. When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

Katherine Jenkins

#15. I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

Steven Wright

#16. And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling

#17. A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Richie Ashburn

#18. I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Norah Jones

#19. Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

William Pickens

#20. The best time to do something is when it can be done.

William Pickens