Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
• Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
• Faith is a passionate intuition.
• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
• Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
• Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
• Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
• Fashion is more about feel than science.
• Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
• Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
• First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
• For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
• For time is the longest distance between two places.
• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
• Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
• From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
• Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.