William Thomas Stead Quotes

#1. And to get that much talent in the show - and to keep it constant and consistent - I think is a remarkable feat.

Anthony Head

#2. Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

Rachel Cusk

#3. It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

William Thomas Stead

#4. America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#5. That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.

Saul Bellow

#6. He was going to die. He deserved a chance to do it on his terms. No matter what it cost us.

Erin Bow

#7. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#8. The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary.

Wendy Francis

#10. The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters
if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.

Golda Poretsky

#11. The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

Laurie Anderson

#12. What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

William Thomas Stead

#13. The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

William Thomas Stead

#14. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.

Susan Blackmore

#15. It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

William Thomas Stead

#16. An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

William Thomas Stead