Aeneas Williams Quotes & Sayings

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop. — Monica Lewinsky

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. — Truman Capote

Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor. — Aleksandr Voinov

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey

What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps. — Agatha Christie

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell. — Benjamin Graham

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. — William Golding

Some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force. — Charlie Munger

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature. — Elif Batuman

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble. — Ezra Taft Benson

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it. — Harper Lee

Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer — Masami Saionji

An ill-worded wish is worse than a curse... — Betsy Schow

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. — Danielle Cormack

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. — William Law