Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

204. “Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

206. “What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.”

— Bill Vaughan

207. “Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.”

— Bill Vaughan

208. “Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.”

— Bill Vaughan

209. “God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.”

— Bill Vaughan

210. “It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.”

— Bill Vaughan

211. “I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.”

— Bill Vaughan

212. “When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.”

— Bill Vaughan

213. “The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.”

— Bill Vaughan

214. “The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.”

— Bill Vaughan

215. “Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.”

— Bill Vaughan

216. “There’s one word that describes baseball – You never know.”

— Bill Vaughan

217. “Live constructively and live optimistically.”

— Bill Vaughan

218. “In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.”

— Bill Vaughan

219. “Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.”

— Bill Vaughan

220. “The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.”

— Bill Vaughan

221. “Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.”

— Bill Vaughan

222. “A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.”

— Bill Vaughan

223. “American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.”

— Bill Vaughan

224. “I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.”

— Bill Vaughan

225. “Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.”

— Bill Vaughan

226. “I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.”

— Bill Vaughan

227. “The familiar childhood admonition of ‘counting to 10’ before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management – time and distraction.”

— Bill Vaughan

228. “I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.”

— Bill Vaughan

229. “A silly row which got out of hand.”

— Bill Vaughan

230. “All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.”

— Bill Vaughan

231. “The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.”

— Bill Vaughan

232. “An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.”

— Bill Vaughan

233. “The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.”

— Bill Vaughan

234. “All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.”

— Bill Vaughan

235. “Calamity was ordained for man.”

— Bill Vaughan

236. “Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.”

— Bill Vaughan

237. “Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.”

— Bill Vaughan

238. “The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.”

— Bill Vaughan

239. “Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.”

— Bill Vaughan

240. “The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.”

— Bill Vaughan

241. “Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China’s culture.”

— Bill Vaughan

242. “If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.”

— Bill Vaughan

243. “I’m not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It’s just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.”

— Bill Vaughan

244. “Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.”

— Bill Vaughan

245. “Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.”

— Bill Vaughan

246. “Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.”

— Bill Vaughan

247. “It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.”

— Bill Vaughan

248. “United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.”

— Bill Vaughan

249. “Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.”

— Bill Vaughan

250. “Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.”

— Bill Vaughan