William Rees Quotes

#1. There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Lauren Conrad

#2. War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

William Rees-Mogg

#3. I knew one guaranteed way to remove someone else's smirk; too bad for me I was handcuffed and couldn't reach Owen's face to slap it.

J.M. Miller

#4. Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

William Rees-Mogg

#5. I get no reaction from her. Nothing. Which means I get everything.

Colleen Hoover

#6. 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

#7. Those who are excellent at their work have learned to comfortably coexist with failure. The excellent fail more often than the mediocre. They begin more. They attempt more. They attack more. Mastery lives quietly atop a mountain of mistakes.

Eric Greitens

#8. The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years

William Rees-Mogg

#9. Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians.

Conan O'Brien

#10. Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

William E. Rees

#11. The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

William Rees-Mogg

#12. Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

William Rees-Mogg

#13. My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.

Les Claypool

#14. In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them. But

Robin Hobb

#15. To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

William E. Rees

#16. The good news is that ... humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

William E. Rees

#17. What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

George Weinberg

#18. Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.

William E. Rees

#20. We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age ...

William E. Rees

#21. I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Tom McCarthy

#22. What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

William Shakespeare

#23. Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karl Popper