Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• 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.
• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
• The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
• The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
• The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
• The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
• The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
• The true method of knowledge is experiment.
• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
• The valiant never taste of death but once.
• The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
• The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
• The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
• The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
• The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
• The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
• The world is governed by opinion.
• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
• The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
• Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
• Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
• There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.
• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
• There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
• There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
• There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.