William Ransome Quotes

William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder. ~ Sarah Perry

Thought of blowing your brains out?"
William blinked, startled.
"No."
"That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it? ~ Diana Gabaldon

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. ~ William Wordsworth

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~ William C. Westmoreland

He worked with that aggrieved persistence, as though calling on heaven to witness the injustice done him, which the sullen everywhere bring to their trivial tasks; and as he worked, his lips moved in unison with his hands to shape his petulant thoughts for his pleasure, for his mind rehearsed eternally the inequities that had been forced upon him - inequities which he must endure in silence, since he was one of the underprivileged ones of the world, the unfortunate son of an unfortunate sharecropper, the pathetic victim of an oppressive system, as everyone who knew anything at all admitted, and had admitted for a long time. ~ William March

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination. ~ William J. Clinton

I began, I remember, because I felt I had to. I'd reached that modest height in my career, that gentle rise, from which I could coast out of gear to a soft stop. Now I wonder why not. Why not? But then duty drove me forward like a soldier. I said it was time for "the Big Book," the long monument to my mind I repeatedly dreamed I had to have: a pyramid, a column tall enough to satisfy the sky. Duty drove me the way it drives men into marriage. Begetting is expected of us, and in those days of heavy men in helmets the seed was certain, and wanted only the wind for a womb, or any slit; yet what sprang up out of those foxholes we fucked with our fists but our own frightened selves? with a shout of pure terror, too. That too - that too was expected; it was expected even of flabby maleless men like me. And now, here, where I am writing still, still in this chair, hammering type like tacks into the page, speaking without a listening ear, whose eye do I hope to catch and charm and fill with tears and understanding, if not my own, my own ordinary, unforgiving and unfeeling eye?...my eye. So sentences circle me like a toy train. What could I have said about the Boche, about bigotry, barbarism, butchery, Bach, that hasn't been said as repeatedly as I dreamed by dream of glory, unless it was what I've said? What could I have explained where no reason exists and no cause is adequate; what body burned to a crisp could I have rebelieved was bacon, if I had not taken the tack I took? ~ William H. Gass

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial. ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

Merry Christmas! the man threatened. ~ William Gaddis

I take full responsability ... for what we did. It was the right thing to do. ~ William J. Clinton

You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get all these details wrong. But if you have a lot of sex with prostitutes and you're friends with prostitutes and you interview prostitutes, then maybe after many, many years you might be able to create prostitute characters. ~ William T. Vollmann

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone. ~ William Lashner

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. ~ William Joyce

Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their parents, the payroll tax would discourage workmen so much that they would quit their jobs, and that, taken all in all, the measure would remove the romance of life. ~ William Manchester

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. ~ William Ames

The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow ~ William Wordsworth

Such antics do not amount to a man. ~ William Shakespeare

Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough ... The vital thing is not to maximize everyone's performance, but to ensure maximal performance from the most talented, the ones who can make a difference. ~ William A. Henry III

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." ~ William Zinsser

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery. ~ William George Jordan

The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. ~ William Shakespeare

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times. ~ William Faulkner

Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius. ~ William Shakespeare

hunt v.

1. harvest
The state of Florida preferred the word "harvest" to the word "hunt" when it allowed hunters to kill 35,000 alligators.

2. naturalize

kill (ANIMALS) v.
1. harvest; see also hunt
2. manage wildlife
3. depopulate ~ William D. Lutz

Man has created death. ~ William Butler Yeats

Come, come, I'll go burn some sack. 'Tis too late to go to bed now. Come, knight. Come, knight. ~ William Shakespeare

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community. ~ William Osler

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. ~ William H. Wharton

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it. ~ William T. Vollmann

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them. ~ William Fichtner

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ~ William S. Burroughs

Look into my eyes, and you will see me there
all, all that is in my heart.' 'Oh, I know what I should see there!' ... 'What would you see? Tell me?' 'There is a little black ball in the middle of your eye; I should see myself in it no bigger than that,' and she marked off about an eighth of her little finger-nail. 'There is a pool in the wood, and I look down and see myself there. That is better. Just as large as I am
not small and black like a small, small fly. ~ William Henry Hudson

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be. ~ William O'Neill

Jesters do oft prove prophets. ~ William Shakespeare

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. ~ William Vickrey

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~ Augustus William Hare

There was something facile and shallow about male beauty, she thought. ~ William Boyd

Fight to the last gasp. ~ William Shakespeare

You let the fire out. ~ William Golding

To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. ~ William Shakespeare

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. ~ William Hazlitt