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Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
~ William Goldman
He's gaining on us, the Turk said. That is also inconceivable, the Sicilian said. Before I stole this boat we're in, I made many inquiries as to what was the fastest ship on all of Florin Channel and everyone agreed it was this one. You're right, the Turk agreed, staring back. He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman
live your life its pain its pleasure leave no path untaken
~ William Goldman
You're right," the Turk agreed, staring back. "He isn't gaining on us. He's just getting closer, that's all.
~ William Goldman
As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.
~ William Goldman
The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old.
~ William Goldman
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
~ William Goldman
Estaba abrumado, sitiado, asediado. Derrotado. Por el hombre de negro.
~ William Goldman
Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?
~ William Goldman
aaron would not come out aaron entered into agony.
~ William Goldman
If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.
~ William Goldman
I, Inigo Montoya, do challenge you, coward, pig, killer, ass, fool, to battle.
~ William Goldman
The penalty of ceasing an aggressive behavior toward the hardships of life on the part of mankind is, that we go backward. We
~ William Graham Sumner
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
~ William Hazlitt
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
~ William Hazlitt
Margaret Sanger, a public health nurse who challenged laws against distributing birth control information, embraced eugenics. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, ostensibly to encourage poor immigrants and other Americans to limit the number of children they bore.
~ William J. Bennett
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
~ William J. Clinton
do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
~ William James
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
~ William James
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
~ William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second
~ William James
Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.
~ William James
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
~ William James
We have then walked, played, or worked enough, so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on this side of which our usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
~ William James