William Prescott Quotes

#1. The longer I stay clean, the better my beats are getting and the easier it is to zero in on one idea. Because I really want to, often, try to get an idea across. I can really get to the essence of a song better if I'm clean and I'm not waking up with a hangover.

Larry Tee

#2. Disappointment is a natural part of the schedule if you plan on winning.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#3. The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

William H. Prescott

#4. It is just as honorable ... to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.

William Warren Prescott

#5. Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Ovid

#6. The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it
this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

William Rees-Mogg

#8. Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

Marjane Satrapi

#9. No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.

William H. Prescott

#10. I have the most amazing support network around me.

Jenny Frost

#11. That's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Jose Saramago

#12. He wasn't allowed to come with me there - my own rule for this
little adventure.
No more.
Good-bye, Aspen.

Kiera Cass

#13. It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. As I said, it was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying.

Nick Youngquest

#14. For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Roger Waters

#15. Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

William H. Prescott

#16. The name of Peru was not known to the natives.

William Prescott

#17. Jesus. Good thing he's not a traffic cop, because he's sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup.

Sarina Bowen

#18. sublimity than the aspect of this coast, as it is

William H. Prescott

#19. I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Philippa Gregory

#20. Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

William H. Prescott

#21. Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.

William Prescott

#22. If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Prescott

#23. We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Osama Bin Laden

#24. The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the gospel so far as I am concerned, is to bring people into personal association with that person with whom I have fellowship.

William Warren Prescott

#25. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

William Prescott

#26. I've written some poetry I don't understand myself

Carl Sandburg