Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
• Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
• But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
• But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
• But men are men the best sometimes forget.
• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
• But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
• By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
• By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
• Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
• Carpe per diem - seize the check.
• Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
• Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
• Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
• Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
• Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
• Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
• Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
• Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
• David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.
• Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
• Death is a fearful thing.
• Death is an absolute marvel.
• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
• Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
• Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.