William E. Hordern quote: "In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say."

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happi...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has eve...
WILLIAM E. WOODWARD

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
WILLIAM E. ROTHSCHILD

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
WILLIAM E. ROTHSCHILD

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go a...
WILLIAM E. ROTHSCHILD

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
WILLIAM E. ROTHSCHILD

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable object...
WILLIAM E. HOLLER

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
WILLIAM E. HICKSON

What is possible is our highest duty.
WILLIAM E. MCLAREN

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempe...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily ...
WILLIAM E. BORAH

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, r...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Justice delayed is justice denied.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successfu...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries ...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I w...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our wor...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal work...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated ...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
WILLIAM E. SIMON

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to th...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, n...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated ...
WILLIAM E GLADSTONE

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the ...
WILLIAM E. VAUGHAN

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and eth...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves ...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They ha...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
WILLIAM E. GEIST

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a c...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar ...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."
WILLIAM E. GEIST

The 10 Frenchmen journeyed to America despite warnings from their mothers that they would be mugged ...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me"...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Profanity is proof of ones lack of aptitude to articulate the English language with intelligence, va...
WILLIAM E BRANDLE

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successfu...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

The difference between the wealthy and the poor are the choices and priories in there lives.
WILLIAM E BRANDLE

Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go a...
WILLIAM E ROTHSCHILD

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries ...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings b...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers a...
WILLIAM E. GEIST

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Bureaucracies themselves should be assumed to be noxious, authoritarian parasites on society, with a...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves -- o...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of it...
WILLIAM E. SIMON

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is the distrust of people tempe...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that h...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, i...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally an...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

[The Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desol...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

This is the negation of God erected into a system of government.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE

to meet production-level quality standards before we ramp the chip into volume production.
WILLIAM E. GILES

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a ...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR.

If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR.

If sports are supposed to be good for you, how come athletes are over the hill at 31?
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of l...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

This is a high-level group, which is probably why I know so few of you.
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whethe...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful ...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which gets the first plastic worm out of th...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Not only do the children enjoy these games which involve buying and selling with play money, but the...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical fig...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure ...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment. ...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn't be seen dead at.
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circum...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who ...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E

Compton is my city.
EAZY-E

I put Compton on the map.
EAZY-E

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
EAZY-E

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to...
EAZY-E

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
EAZY-E

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
EAZY-E

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t...
EAZY-E

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like...
EAZY-E

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
EAZY-E

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
EAZY-E

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th...
EAZY-E

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
EAZY-E

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott...
EAZY-E

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
EAZY-E

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
EAZY-E

Cussing ain't for everybody.
EAZY-E

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. LOCKHART

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
E. LOCKHART

Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am s...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART

Sarcasm spoils reproof.
E. WIGGLESWORH

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit...
EAZY-E

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E.

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

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William E. Hordern

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

William E. Hordern

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