Willie Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
-- Willie Brown

#Lying #Political #Hours
Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.
-- Willie Brown

#Political #Matter #Taste
Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
-- Willie Brown

#Successful #Political #World
The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.
-- Willie Brown

#Moving #One Direction #Political
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.
-- Willie Brown

#Political #Crime #Lows
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.
-- Willie Brown

#Cities #San Francisco #May
Mayors are judged by results.
-- Willie Brown

#Mayors #Results #Judged

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Willie Brown famous quotes

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