William Rees Quotes & Sayings

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. — Walter Isaacson

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth. — William Rees-Mogg

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age ... — William E. Rees

The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years — William Rees-Mogg

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. — Alain De Botton

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy. — William Rees-Mogg

One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all. — William E. Rees

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them. — William E. Rees

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper. — William E. Rees

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny. — John Michael Higgins

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader. — William Rees-Mogg

The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich; Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout; My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir; The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin; The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader by Rees Hughes and Corey Lewis; Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls; A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. — Cheryl Strayed

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. — Steve Wozniak

The good news is that ... humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change. — William E. Rees

This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light. — Sarah Dessen

I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it! — Stacey Snider

John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them. — William Rees-Mogg

Dreams are all equipped with revolving doors: Someone is always walking into the one you are leaving, and vice-versa. — Andrew Holleran

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate. — Fred Hoyle

Take love to people and teach them to abide by the principles of God — Sunday Adelaja

Yeah I took the spot she gone POOF — Nicki Minaj

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history. — William Rees-Mogg

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance. — William E. Rees