| William Osler |  The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler |
| William Petersen | I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen |
| William Prescott | If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.
William Prescott |
| William Ralph Inge | To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge |
| William Randolph | A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph |
| William Randolph Hearst | A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst |
| William Scott | I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
William Scott |
| William Wycherley | Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley |
| Willie Mays | I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.
Willie Mays |
| Wilma Mankiller | Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Wilma Mankiller |
| Wim Wenders | In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Wim Wenders |
| Winona Ryder | It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder |
| Winston Churchill | Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill |
| wish | A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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| wish | You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius
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| Wolfman Jack | I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
Wolfman Jack |
| wonder | The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
Tadao Ando
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| Woodrow Wilson | That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson |
| Xavier Becerra | I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
Xavier Becerra |
| Xun Zi | Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Zi |
