Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
• There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
• There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
• There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
• There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
• There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
• There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
• There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
• There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
• There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
• There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
• There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
• There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.
• There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
• There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
• There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
• There's an entry point to any relationship.
• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
• There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
• There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
• Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
• They always win who side with God.
• They do not love that do not show their love.
• They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
• This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.