William Hesketh Lever Quotes

What one cannot, another can. ~ William Davenant

Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among the deprived ... than among merchant bankers living in Surrey's green belt. ~ William Donaldson

I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases - one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. ~ William Happer

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare ~ William Reynolds Archer, Jr.

The poet thinks with his poem... ~ William Carlos Williams

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short. ~ Prince William

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him. ~ William Penn

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it ... ~ William Shakespeare

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none. ~ Augustus William Hare

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf ... Cupid. ~ William Shakespeare

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. ~ William Butler Yeats

When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won. ~ William Shakespeare

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. ~ William Congreve

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns ~ William Dalrymple

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas; that is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world. ~ William O. Douglas

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. ~ Umberto Eco

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. ~ William R. Alger

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive. ~ William Gibson

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world. ~ Eric Metaxas

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. ~ William Dean Howells

Promise me ye'll be careful."
"I'll gladly do that." A hand moved to her nape, a finger tickling the side of her neck. "Ye ken why?" he asked with a devilish grin.
"No." Her tongue grew dry.
His gaze dipped to her mouth. "'Cause ye still love me, lass." With one step in, his chest lightly brushed the tips of her breasts as he lowered his lips to hers. She caught a drift of his scent, part leather, part iron, part musk and entirely intoxicating male. With a rush of heat between her legs, Eva could no sooner resist him than to say no to warm double-chocolate-fudge-melting cake. The deep rumble of his sigh made tingles spread through the tips of her fingers as he deepened the pressure with soft, demanding lips ~ Amy Jarecki

Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. ~ William Shakespeare

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee ~ William Shakespeare

But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one's death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It's commercially unsound. ~ William Gerhardie

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood. ~ William Hazlitt

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows. ~ William Feather

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' ~ Christopher Buckley

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. ~ William Cowper

It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out. ~ William Goldman

The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it. ~ Elliot Perlman

What narcissists and sociopaths will do is construct a false apology, in order to pacify dissent and further evade detection. This is usually delivered snidely, with a subtext of blaming the victim for their own actions, whatever they are. ~ William Lockhart

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives ... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society ... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century. ~ William J. Clinton

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. ~ William Shakespeare

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle. ~ William Randolph Hearst

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management. ~ William Rathje

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly. ~ William Shakespeare

Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none ~ William Shakespeare

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas. ~ John William Draper

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,
compare notes and chat the hour away. ~ William Hazlitt

I don't think much about the digital world ... because I am in the analog world! ~ William Eggleston

he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly. ~ Charles William Chadwick Oman

He was like a kid who'd grown up beside an ocean, taking it as much for granted as he took the sky, but knowing nothing of currents, shipping routes, or the ins and outs of weather. He'd used decks in school, toys that shuttled you through the infinite reaches of that space that wasn't space, mankind's unthinkably complex consensual hallucination, the matrix, cyberspace, where the great corporate hotcores burned like neon novas, data so dense you suffered sensory overload if you tried to apprehend more than the merest outline. ~ William Gibson

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ~ William Thomas Green Morton

The more we do, the more we can do. ~ William Hazlitt

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation. ~ William Shakespeare

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking. ~ Seann William Scott

Truth is what works. ~ William James

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect ~ William Wordsworth

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. ~ William Blake