Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
• From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
• Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
• Garden as though you will live forever.
• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
• God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
• God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.
• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
• God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
• God is definitely out of the closet.
• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
• Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
• Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
• Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
• Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
• Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
• Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
• Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
• Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
• Happiness is an inside job.
• Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
• Happiness lies first of all in health.
• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
• Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
• Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
• Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.