Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
• War is at its best barbarism.
• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
• War is fear cloaked in courage.
• War is hell.
• War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
• War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
• War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
• We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
• We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
• We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
• We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
• We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
• We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
• We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
• We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
• We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
• We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
• We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
• We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible.
• We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
• We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
• We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
• We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
• We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
• We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
• We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
• We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
• We love peace, but not peace at any price.
• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
• We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
• We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
• We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
• We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.