Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
• Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
• Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
• Exuberance is beauty.
• Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
• Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
• Faith is a passionate intuition.
• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
• Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
• Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
• Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
• Fashion is more about feel than science.
• Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
• Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
• First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
• For time is the longest distance between two places.
• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
• Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.