Bernard Williams Quotes

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.

Bernard Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 21, 1929 - June 10, 2003

Topics

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The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Jim Dine

FaithMatterEmotionOnlyStillHow

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Jennifer Ellison

ChickenSaladEatSalmonLot

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

Andres Serrano

WorkSmartThinkSomedayI Think

Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'

Steve Winwood

TimeTalentThinkNowKindSixties

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

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I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

Roger Mahony

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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

Roddy Doyle

WorldSpeakThinkUniverseAttention

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

Romeo Miller

RespectBasketballYouCoachPlaying

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

Mary J. Blige

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The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

Michael McCaul

PlaceHolocaustPresidentResponsible

I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.

Dennis Haysbert

LifeMy LifeI CanDoneSafeThings

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

Debra Messing

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