Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Tecumseh Sherman

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

William Ramsay

If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

William Rehnquist

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

William Powell

Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.

William Randolph Hearst

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Ralph Inge

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

William Ivey Long

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

William Hurt

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

William Brewster

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

William Boyd

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

William Carey

In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

William C. Bryant

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

William Butler Yeats

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

William Butler Yeats

Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night....

William Butler Yeats

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

William Butler Yeats

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

William Butler Yeats

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

William Butler Yeats

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

Wilhelm Steinitz

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

Will Arnett

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

Will Arnett

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

Wilhelm Reich

See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

Wilhelm Reich

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Walter Scott

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Walter F. Mondale

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

Walter F. Mondale

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

Walter Isaacson

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

Walter Isaacson

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Vladimir Putin

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

William Katt

Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

Yohan Blake

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

Yitzhak Rabin

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.