Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?”

— Bill Vaughan

152. “Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.”

— Bill Vaughan

153. “Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.”

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154. “The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.”

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155. “Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.”

— Bill Vaughan

156. “Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?”

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157. “In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.”

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158. “In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can’t do anything unless Congress says yes.”

— Bill Vaughan

159. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”

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160. “There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.”

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161. “Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque.”

— Bill Vaughan

162. “Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.”

— Bill Vaughan

163. “The fact is that I loved being in England.”

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164. “You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you’ve got-your everything.”

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165. “Work is the means of living, but it is not living.”

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166. “To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We’re in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.”

— Bill Vaughan

167. “Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.”

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168. “A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!”

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169. “When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.”

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170. “As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered – only for an instant – what perhaps I’d never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.”

— Bill Vaughan

171. “We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.”

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172. “Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.”

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173. “Contraries are cured by contraries.”

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174. “All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.”

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175. “Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.”

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176. “Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.”

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177. “Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.”

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178. “It is better to be killed than frightened to death.”

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179. “Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.”

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180. “Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?”

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181. “The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.”

— Bill Vaughan

182. “Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”

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183. “Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.”

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184. “Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.”

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185. “The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.”

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186. “There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe’s death, because our own life will also not last forever.”

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187. “The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.”

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188. “A covetous man’s penny is a stone.”

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189. “Because, as we are told – a sad old joke, too – Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.”

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190. “The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.”

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191. “Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.”

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192. “There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.”

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193. “Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.”

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194. “Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.”

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195. “Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.”

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196. “I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.”

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197. “I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.”

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198. “It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.”

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199. “The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.”

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200. “According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.”

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