Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
• In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
• In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
• In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
• In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.
• In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
• In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
• In time we hate that which we often fear.
• In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
• In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
• Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
• Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
• Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
• Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
• Interior design is a business of trust.
• It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
• It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
• It is a wise father that knows his own child.
• It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
• It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
• It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
• It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
• It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
• It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
• It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
• It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
• It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
• It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
• It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.