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William P. Leahy Quotes

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

William P. Leahy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Forgiveness Say Judgment Seek Made

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Always Being Must Our Accepting

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

Wish Become Need Always Poet Public

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

Walk People Think Laugh You Know

I'm not one to bow under immense pressure. I know how to deal with it. As a youth player growing up and playing for England, you deal with it then and get used to it. You just carry on into the bigger stages, and it has become natural to me.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Me Youth Growing Up Pressure You Up

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Great People World Rich Trying Up

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

Book Reading You Find Like Corny

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Jordan Peterson

Baby Want Ivy Oppressed Still Kids

I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.

Douglas Tompkins

Society Doing Nobody Something Stuff

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

Good Men Fight Management Desire He

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'

Love Me Singing Country Write Sing

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

Heart Time Soul Think Feel My Soul

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Life Change Change The World World

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