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In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It
~ William Graham Sumner
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
~ William Griffith Wilson
It was a sweet speech of a dying saint, 'That he was going to change his place but not his company.
~ William Gurnall
The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.
~ William Gurnall
use all means for the discovery of sin, and as it breaks forth to be humbled for it, and be chopping at the root of it with this axe of mortification, and thou shalt see by the blessing of God what a change for the better there will be in the constitution of thy grace. Thou
~ William Gurnall
One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.
~ William H. Armstrong
He had read in it: "Only the unwise think that what has changed is dead." He had asked the teacher what it meant, and the teacher had said that if a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.
~ William H. Armstrong
One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together. September 14, 1911: Writer and teacher William Armstrong wrote celebrated children's books including the Newbery Medal-winning Sounder, about an African American sharecropper family with a loud and loyal hound, inspired by Odysseus' dog Argus. Armstrong was born in Virginia 102 years ago today.
~ William H. Armstrong
There's no great future in being the leading supplier to a dying industry.
~ William H. Davidow
But for high-tech products (and many others) promotions can't change reality.
~ William H. Davidow
Why were they whining then?...whining, damn them, whining… Because they'd have to give up their hope of living like an animal and return to an honest, conscious, human life. The prospect was hard.
~ William H. Gass
Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.
~ William H. Gass
it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.
~ William H. Gass
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
~ William H. Gass
Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?
~ William Habington
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
~ William Hague
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
~ William Hague
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
~ William Hague
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
~ William Hague
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
~ William Hague
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
~ William Hague
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
~ William Hague
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
~ William Hague
La realidad externa es una realidad, pero nada más que superficial; en un nivel más profundo la verdad es que todo el universo, animado o inanimado, es un estado constante de devenir, de surgir y desaparecer. Cada uno de nosotros es, de hecho, una corriente de partículas subatómicas en cambio constante, junto a las cuales los procesos de consciencia, percepción, sensación y reacción cambian todavía más rápidamente que el proceso físico.
~ William Hart