Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...

William Wordsworth

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

William Wordsworth

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

William Wordsworth

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

William Wordsworth

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

William Wordsworth

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

William Wordsworth

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

William Wordsworth

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear. William Winter, Love's Queen. The unconquerable pang of despised love.

William Wordsworth

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

William Wordsworth

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

William Wordsworth

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

William Wordsworth

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.

William Wordsworth

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Shenstone

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

William Shenstone

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

William Saroyan

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

William Saroyan

All things lie dark in possibility.

William Saroyan

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

William Shatner

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

William Morris

In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.

William J. Clinton

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.

William J. Clinton

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

William J. Clinton

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

William J. Clinton

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

William J. Clinton

I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.