Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
• Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
• Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.
• Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
• Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
• Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
• Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
• As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
• As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
• As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
• As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
• As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
• As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
• As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
• At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
• At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
• Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.
• Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
• Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
• Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.
• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
• Beauty is the lover's gift.
• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
• Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
• Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
• Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
• Belief creates the actual fact.
• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
• Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.