Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
• There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
• There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
• There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
• There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
• There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
• There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
• There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
• There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
• There's an entry point to any relationship.
• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
• There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
• There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
• Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
• They always win who side with God.
• They do not love that do not show their love.
• They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
• This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
• This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
• This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
• This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
• This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.