Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
• Peace without justice is tyranny.
• People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
• People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
• Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
• Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
• Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
• Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
• Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
• Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
• Politics makes me sick.
• Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
• President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
• Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
• Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
• Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.