Quotes About William

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

or in the case of half-stroke cycles like the Kondratieff wave, half a human life).

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.

My name is Blake Turner, and I have been recruited by the super awesome Ninja Spy Agency to become a real ninja spy.

Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

the saddle. "That's a rarity in this part of the

But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

Yes, I do think William is serious. But you don't need to be worried, dear. No one is going to hurry you, least of all William himself. He is a very fine young man. Of course you feel like strangers now. But I think you'll find sufficient to talk about before long.

The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn—a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

One morning when I was sitting on our front step, William came out of the house. "What excitement are you up to today, Miss Peck?" he asked. I shrugged. Most likely I would be spitting from the roof at passing gentleman with Jebediah Parker, but I thought it best not to say anything. A man who didn't belch at the table was unlikely to approve of spitting.

To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.

Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

affinity for William F. Cody, who lived most of his adult life in Nebraska. My father, George W. Carter, could have seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West when it came to Omaha in August 1908.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.