| William Temple |  The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple |
| William Thomas Green Morton | That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
William Thomas Green Morton |
| William Trogdon | Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
William Trogdon |
| William Weld | Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
William Weld |
| Wilma Rudolph | I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph |
| Winona Ryder | I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
Winona Ryder |
| Winona Ryder | I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
Winona Ryder |
| Winston Churchill | The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill |
| without | 'There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went on without attending to her, 'if we had the door between us. |
| Witold Pilecki | I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.
Witold Pilecki |
| Wolfgang Petersen | Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
Wolfgang Petersen |
| wonderful | Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.
Tenley Albright
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| worry | It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer
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| worthiness | A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.
Polly Berrien Berends
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| Xun Zi | A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi |
| Yahoo Serious | While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Yahoo Serious |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| Yoko Ono | True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono |
| Yves Tanguy | The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy |
| Zac Efron | I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Zac Efron |
