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William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 17, 1874 - July 22, 1950

Topics

Good Progress Doing Bad Doing Good

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.

Life Work Time Football Game Week

Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Myself Simplicity Feel Miami Blues

Beijing is my favorite city in China.

City China Favorite Beijing

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Michael Jackson

Life Present Meaning Creation Single

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wife Happy Years Met Then Were

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Talent Reading Thought Literature

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Intelligence Society Reality Pretend

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Love Live Time Men People College

I'm a huge Jon Lovitz fan.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Douglas Coupland

People Strong Good-Looking Teeth Get

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

Today I Am Conflict Stand You More

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Chris Van Allsburg

Success Great Art Me Think Feel

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