Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
• Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
• Divorce is probably as painful as death.
• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
• Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
• Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.
• Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
• Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
• Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
• Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
• Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
• Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
• Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
• Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
• Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
• Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
• Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
• Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
• Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
• Every failure is a step to success.
• Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
• Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.