Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
• If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
• If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
• If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
• If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
• If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
• If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
• If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
• If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
• If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
• If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
• If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
• If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
• If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
• If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
• If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
• If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
• If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
• If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
• Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
• In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
• In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
• In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
• In business for yourself, not by yourself.
• In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
• In dreams begins responsibility.