Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
• Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
• Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
• Politics makes me sick.
• Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
• President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
• Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
• Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
• Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
• Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
• Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
• Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
• Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
• Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
• Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
• Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
• Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
• Romantic love is painful.
• Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
• Rules and models destroy genius and art.
• Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
• Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
• Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
• Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
• Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.