Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
• The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
• The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
• The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
• The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
• The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
• The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
• The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
• The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament it is its ancient and natural strength the floating bulwark of the island.
• The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
• The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
• The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
• The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
• The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
• The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
• The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
• The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
• The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
• The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.