Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
• The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
• The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
• The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
• The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
• The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
• The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
• The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
• The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
• The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
• The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
• The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
• The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
• The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
• The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
• The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
• The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament it is its ancient and natural strength the floating bulwark of the island.
• The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
• The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
• The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
• The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
• The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
• The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.