William Godwin Quotes

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

William Godwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

Topics

ReachCircumstancesHumanWithinOwn

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

Jenson Button

TimeBestFunAmazingRaceJust One

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

John Lanchester

MoneyYouDownUnderstandFrameCut

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Jean Philippe Rameau

MusicWordsFirstCommonOrigins

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

Trey Gowdy

MoneyColleaguesWillFollowSuit

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Tony Campolo

NatureReligionUnderstandingDoubt

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

Mike Epps

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I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

Mindy Kaling

I AmPeopleThinkWantWillSee

America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

Joseph Stiglitz

GrowAmericaIndiaEconomyChina

I feel like a lot of my fans hold high expectations of me when it comes to inside the Octagon - not so much outside of the Octagon - but I feel like most of my performances are pretty dominant, so I don't feel like I have the luxury to not perform in an extremely impressive fashion.

Jon Jones

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Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

David Walton

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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

Anthony Albanese

TodayTimeTomorrowThinkAhead

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.

Auli'i Cravalho

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