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Great floods have flown From simple sources.
— William Shakespeare
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.
— William J. Clinton
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
— William Hurt
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
— William Glasser
O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!
— William Shakespeare
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
— William Shenstone
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
— William, Saroyan
All's well that ends well.
— William Shakespeare
Garden as though you will live forever.
— William Kent
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born. — William Shakespeare
To one of woman born. — William Shakespeare
I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause.
— William Shakespeare
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
— William Shakespeare
The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare
To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
— George William Russell
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
— William Hazlitt
I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.
— Seann William Scott
I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.
— William Banting
Necessity, mother of invention.
— William Wycherley
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
— William Faulkner
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
— Sara Humphreys
We dont study philosophy, we rather do it.
— William F. Lawhead
Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.
— William Cowper
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
— William Barclay
Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists
— William Blake
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
— William Shenstone
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
— William Hazlitt
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
— William Moseley
Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.
— Cassandra Clare
Without bread all is misery.
— William Cobbett
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
— John William Draper
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
— William Harvey
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
— William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.
— William Shakespeare
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.
— William Blake
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
— William Shakespeare
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
— William Butler Yeats
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
— William Arthur Ward
The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
— William Devane
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
— William Branch Giles
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
— William Shakespeare
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
— William Shakespeare
The street has its own use for things.
— William Gibson
We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.
— William John Wills
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
— William Gilmore Simms
Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It
— William Shakespeare
Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
— William Paul Young
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
— William Benton Clulow
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
— William Glasser
If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?
— William Arthur Ward
She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
— William Peter Blatty
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
— William Shatner
Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on. — William C. Bryant
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on. — William C. Bryant
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
— William Peter Blatty
( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare
Thought was a valuable thing, that got results.
— William Golding
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity
— William Arthur Ward
For nature then to me was all in all.
— William Wordsworth
Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
— William Shakespeare
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
— William J. Clinton
O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
— William S. Burroughs
There's small choice in rotten apples.
— William Shakespeare
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it
— William Arthur Ward
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
— William Allen White
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
— William J. Seymour
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
— William Howard Taft
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
— William Hogarth
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
— William Goldman
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
— William Blum
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
— William Wordsworth
Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
— William Booth
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
— William Blake
A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.
— William Gibson
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
— William A. Dembski
Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.
— William Shakespeare
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
— Ken Burns
Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
— William Blum
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
— William J. Clinton
I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.
— William, Saroyan
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing ... [We] need ... to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
— William Bennett
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
— William Macneile Dixon
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
— William Blake
Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.
— William Golding
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
— William Shenstone
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
— William Shatner
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
— William S. Burroughs
Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant
Although the last, not least.
— William Shakespeare