| William H. Macy |  We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
William H. Macy |
| William J. Clinton | I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton |
| William J. Clinton | The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton |
| William James | Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James |
| William James | The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James |
| William Kennedy | Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
William Kennedy |
| William Kingdon Clifford | This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford |
| William Kingdon Clifford | We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
William Kingdon Clifford |
| William Kirby | Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
William Kirby |
| William Lyon Phelps | If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
William Lyon Phelps |
| William Lyon Phelps | Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps |
| William O. Douglas | Common sense often makes good law.
William O. Douglas |
| William Osler | Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler |
| William P. Bundy | I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.
William P. Bundy |
| William Penn | Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn |
| William Penn | Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn |
| William Pitt | Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt |
| William Ralph Inge | I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge |
| William Robertson Smith | But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith |
| William Robertson Smith | Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
William Robertson Smith |
