William Adams Famous Quotes
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity."
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
Faith is a continuation of reason.
William Adams Quotations
"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."
Peter Ustinov
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users
Clifford Stoll
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day..."
Jim Rohn
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today"
Martin Luther King Jr
"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E L Doctorow
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Robert A Heinlein
"Judge Smails It's easy to grin When your ship comes in And you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat."
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