People hate as they love, unreasonably.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
— William Lyon Phelps
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
— William Law
Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.
— William Kent Krueger
For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.
— William Jackson Harper
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
— William Inge
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
— William Howard Taft
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
— William Hazlitt
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
— William Golding
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.
— William Godwin
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work.
— William Forsythe
I love Rob Zombie. Rob's just a dude, you know? He's an artist, but he's a regular guy, down to earth. And he's a damned good director, too, and a lot of fun to work with.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.
— William Levy
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
— William Landay
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
— William Joyce
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
— William J. Clinton
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
— William Hague
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
The true key of the universe is love.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
— William Glasser
I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.
I'm an automotive fan. I love motor sports, and I love to watch motor sports. I love it all.
— William Fichtner
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
— William Jay Smith
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
— William Irwin Thompson
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
— William Hurt
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
— William H. Macy
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'd love to do another film with Warren. I think that 'Dick Tracy' is an outstanding film in its own right.
I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.
