Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
• When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
• When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
• When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
• When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
• When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
• When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
• When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.
• When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.
• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
• Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
• Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
• Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
• Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
• Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
• Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
• Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
• Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
• Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
• Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
• With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
• With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
• Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.