William John Wills quote: "I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments."

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, a...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; i...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, an...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their educ...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted t...
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
GARRY WILLS

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much mor...
GARRY WILLS

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
GARRY WILLS

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, t...
GARRY WILLS

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
GARRY WILLS

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
GARRY WILLS

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, fol...
GARRY WILLS

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
GARY WILLS

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
HEIDI WILLS

Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
CHILL WILLS

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I k...
CHILL WILLS

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
CHILL WILLS

I don't have an infinite number of agents to address the unlawful population. So the ones that would...
WAYNE WILLS

We want the message to get out to the immigrant community -- specifically the unlawful immigrant com...
WAYNE WILLS

It takes courage to do something new because we fear rejection.
DEON WILLS

What our paper shows quite clearly is that this process is happening in small parts of the forest. W...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

If you damage a forest a little bit, the forest can recover. Even damaged ecosystems can be restored...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

Hopefully, it clears up and everyone can be outside and have a good time.
BOB WILLS

I think I was singing when I was born,
BOB WILLS

Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, fol...
GARY WILLS

Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species d...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

They really are a very forgiving system, but if you come in and chop everything down and turn it int...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely b...
GARRY WILLS

We are factoring in research and also talking about it in the language of the brand.
CRAIG WILLS

When push comes to shove and there's controversy on a subject [readers] really look for what reputab...
FRAN WILLS

It really enforces your leadership in the community as the voice of the community.
FRAN WILLS

Like Nixon, he made large sums of money in the long games at military bases. Unlike Nixon, he was so...
GARRY WILLS

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
GARY WILLS

We are always in the game, we always play hard, but we don't finish. We've got a lot of people injur...
JASON WILLS

We're a running team, and we're not very big, so we've got to get up and down the court. And then we...
JASON WILLS

She'd been drinking, then lethargic, then unresponsive.
JOE WILLS

They kind of had her attention for a while, and then she felt it sounded kind of fishy.
JOE WILLS

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that ...
JOE WILLS

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college, ... And t...
JOE WILLS

They're used to the Valley atmosphere and they have an interest in recreation. It's something that's...
JOE WILLS

I think we're perfectly happy not to be mentioned by Princeton Review.
JOE WILLS

Anytime we avoid that association, it's good news for Chico State.
JOE WILLS

We'd run up to people at Warped Tour and throw headphones on people and say, 'Hey, do you like our C...
JOSH WILLS

Most things that people give us we're never really happy with, so most of the time we do everything ...
JOSH WILLS

Everybody was really into it and moving. It was not just sitting there in chairs, playing the songs....
JOSH WILLS

I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h...
MAURY WILLS

It's disappointing, but I broke the record just by taking the lineup out there,
MAURY WILLS

Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.
GARRY WILLS

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed i...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the p...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message n...
KAY WILLS WYMA

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tenn...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies ...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
HELEN WILLS MOODY

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was min...
HELEN WILLS MOODY

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
DONALD WILLS DOUGLAS

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they ge...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the confli...
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER

Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make in...
JOHN WILLIAM WARD

Sometimes a man must stand for what is right and sometimes you must simply walk away and suffer the ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They ...
JOHN WILLIAM MCCORMACK

In late October of 1962, it was our turn to go. Miss Hanrahan appeared in her state Ford Rambler, wh...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

A few days after I began my short story, I returned to his desk and handed him my updates. He pushed...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest th...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw...
JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER

A rose-red city half as old as Time.
DEAN JOHN WILLIAM BURGON

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

From the development of our world and its ability to hold life, to being born into a species that ha...
WILLIAM JOHN SHERMAN WALSH III

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

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