Bill Vaughan Quotes

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

You only get to keep what you give away.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

There are people in many other states who are cheering us.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Calamity was ordained for man.

It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.