William Ross Sayings

#1. They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be.

William Ross Wallace

#2. It was that simple. God spoke to Carey about the needs of the lost in other lands. And Carey wished to respond. After all, was that not what the Bible told him to do?

Ross Paterson

#3. Today the pain seems to be gone, along with fear and shapelessness.

Ophelia Callens

#4. Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.

Emma Jane Unsworth

#5. I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

Frank Fairfield

#6. The only person I let order me around is Zero!

Lucille Kallen

#7. Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

William Ross Wallace

#8. To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Katherine Mansfield

#9. Siward: Then he is dead?
Ross: Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by the worth, for then
It hath no end.

William Shakespeare

#10. A brain can improve till it fits its environment.

William Ross Ashby

#11. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Ram Dass

#12. Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan Knowles

#13. There were a number of early water-powered mills around Green Hill. Duncan Smith, Berry McDonald, Thomas Ross, Isham Richardson, and Enoch Raleigh Kennedy had gristmills on Cow Pen Creek.

William Lindsey McDonald

#14. We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.

Tobias Wolff

#15. Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. "Doctor," said a woman's voice, "my child has swallowed a mouse." "Then get him to swallow a cat," he replied, and slammed down the receiver.

Ross Wetzsteon

#16. What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

William Ross Ashby

#17. A sound like a sound of thunder rolled,
And the heart of a nation stirred

William Ross Wallace

#18. For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Warren Farrell

#19. Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns.

William Stewart Ross

#20. If you don't tell people your plans they can't follow along." "They don't follow along anyway," Tyler said. "Most of them do their level best to piss in your well just to piss in your well.

John Ringo