Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
• This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
• This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
• This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
• This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
• Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
• Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
• Time is the longest distance between two places.
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
• Time itself comes in drops.
• Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
• To be free is to have achieved your life.
• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
• To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
• To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
• To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
• To do a great right do a little wrong.
• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
• To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
• To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
• To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
• To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
• To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.