You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the en...
WILLIAM H. O'CONNELL I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all ot...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with gun...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
WILLIAM H MAULDIN A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
WILLIAM H. MURRAY But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely commit...
WILLIAM H. MURRAY What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
WILLIAM H. DAVIES If it is to be, it is up to me.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSEN A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interes...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard ...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for ...
WILLIAM H. MACY It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature ...
WILLIAM H. GASS The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insis...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginnin...
WILLIAM H. PRYOR That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
WILLIAM H. MACY To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, ...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and wi...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
WILLIAM H. MACY I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves th...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, i...
WILLIAM H. MACY Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the co...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily l...
WILLIAM H. BORAH Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regr...
WILLIAM H. SHELDON I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the t...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not ...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither nort...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
WILLIAM H. MACY When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was goi...
WILLIAM H. MACY There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed ou...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the ...
WILLIAM H. MACY Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.
WILLIAM H. WELCH If it is to be, it is up to me.
WILLIAM H JOHNSEN If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and ...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, ev...
WILLIAM H. MACY The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
WILLIAM H. GASS For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, referenc...
WILLIAM H. GASS It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a sout...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to create a public forum for Web publi...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion wh...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST "Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN How ya gonna find out if they're fresh troops if ya don't wake 'em up and ask 'em?
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN If you can get behind an Englishman's unholy fear of making a friend until he has known the candidat...
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He...
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN My business is drawing, not writing, and this text is pretty much background for the drawings.
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN They are normal people who have been put where they are, and whose actions and feelings have been mo...
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal ...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose ...
WILLIAM H. HUNT Sure, there are good things, lots, sure, blow jobs, chocolate mousse, winning streaks, the warm fire...
WILLIAM H. GASS As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I ...
WILLIAM H. GASS As the demographic makeup of this pool changes, it seems entirely likely that the under-representati...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Getting even is one reason for writing.
WILLIAM H. GASS And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
WILLIAM H. GASS We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after w...
WILLIAM H. GASS The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the s...
WILLIAM H. GASS [For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, refere...
WILLIAM H. GASS The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movement...
WILLIAM H. GASS Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, o...
WILLIAM H. GASS The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contentio...
WILLIAM H. GASS If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not ...
WILLIAM H. GASS is try to spend three or four days here and I pretend that I'm going to screenings, but actually I s...
WILLIAM H. MACY We are not much interested in labels but if we were to choose one, we would say we are radical. Just...
WILLIAM H. GRIMES The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN [Jury selection] . . . is best based upon seat-of-the-pants instincts, which are undoubtedly crudely...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST If he is looking weary and resigned to the fact that he is probably going to die before it is over, ...
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words ...
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I believe that abortion is morally wrong.
WILLIAM H. PRYOR It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
WILLIAM H. GASS We have to do the best we can with the language and concepts we inherit and not worry about obtainin...
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL "Muscular bonding" is the most economical label I could find for this phenomenon, and I hope the phr...
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the naïve idea that truth resides in what ...
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL . . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt...
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amaz...
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON We strike down the floating buffer zones around people entering and leaving the clinics because they...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST All principles of antitrust law are court made, so we need to be as clear as possible.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST I think it's safe to say that no one smelled more roses than my dad,
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST has been repeatedly reaffirmed by a changing group of justices.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST an excellent administrator. No justice ever missed a deadline in the time he served.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST to say that it is easily applied is just a myth.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST No exact formula can dictate a resolution in fact-intensive cases such as this,
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST To reach its result, the court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the 14th Amendment a ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST I leave you now a wiser, but not a sadder, man,
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST I didn't know we had that many people on our court.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST He was a man of character and dedication.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST The American judicial system is admired throughout the world.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Inadequate compensation seriously compromises the judicial independence fostered by life tenure. Tha...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST A father's interest in having a child -- perhaps his only child -- may be unmatched by any other int...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST It's the thing in itself that justifies it.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST We decline to overrule Miranda ourselves,
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is q...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutio...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it enga...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Our judges will not continue to represent the diverse face of America if only the well-to-do or the ...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any...
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to...
WILLIAM H. GASS Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regr...
WILLIAM H. SHELDON My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for ...
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
WILLIAM H. MACY ...until summer becomes ein Zimmer in einem Traum -- a room in a dream.
WILLIAM H. GASS As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granari...
WILLIAM H. GASS The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
WILLIAM H. O'CONNELL ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine...
WILLIAM H. GASS But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, t...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm tha...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to t...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack,...
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another...
WILLIAM H. MACY The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the govern...
WILLIAM H. WHARTON The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the compu...
WILLIAM H. WHYTE The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pro...
WILLIAM H. GASS Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder...
WILLIAM H. GASS Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were re...
WILLIAM H. HUNT For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...
WILLIAM H. GASS The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a fr...
WILLIAM H. GRAY Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Go...
WILLIAM H. MACY Still, we permit the appearance of our meats, sauces, fruits, and vdgetables to dominate our tongues...
WILLIAM H. GASS Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS 1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by we...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know i...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and vi...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you ar...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely tr...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and securi...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing do...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth m...
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your igno...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a some...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbo...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in other...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something ...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER True religion . . . is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of ot...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you shou...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of o...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Important things are not things.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Respect, don't suspect.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa...
H. JANICKI An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
H. POWERS