Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. H. Boetcker

True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William Jennings Bryan

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Virginia Woolf

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

Virginia Woolf

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Woody Harrelson

I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.

Woodrow Wilson

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Woody Allen

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

Woody Allen

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

Woody Allen

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

William Weld

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

William Whipple

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

William Wordsworth

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

William Saroyan

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

William Saroyan

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

William Saroyan

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

William Shatner

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

William Morris Hunt

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

William J. Clinton

I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

William J. Clinton

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

William J. Clinton

We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.

William J. Clinton

Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

William J. Clinton

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

William J. Clinton

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

William J. Clinton

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

William J. Clinton

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

William James

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

William Friedkin

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

William Gibson

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

Will Eisner

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

Sarah Rees Brennan

One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. “Baa,” it flirted. “Boo,” said Jared. “Oh my God, Jared. Don’t tough-talk the lambs.” "It was giving me a funny look.