William Federer Quotes & Sayings

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. — Michael Phelps

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see. — Andrew Mason

Concentrated power is bad"

"(name of chapter) — William J. Federer

Persistence wears down resistance. — William J. Federer

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. — Ellen Hopkins

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin. — Judd Apatow

Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)! — Shay Dawkins

It isn't the perfect 'fairytale love story' I read about when I was a little girl. The ones with the perfect Prince Charming and the sweet and innocent princess. Instead, I fell in love with the Harley riding 'bad boy', and Lawson fell for the southern belle with a wild streak a mile wide. But if you ask me, I think eight-year-old me would love the way our happily ever after turned out. — Danielle Jamie

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in. — Bill Ayers

Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken. — R. Scott Bakker

The story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. — William J. Federer

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS
LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS
POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS
VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION
PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION

so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY. — William J. Federer

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz. — Nick Cohen

The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious — Mahatma Gandhi

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. — Sherrod Brown

I was looking for Simon." Jordan squinted at her. "It's two in the morning." She shrugged. "He's a vampire." "But I'm not. — Cassandra Clare

The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies ... — William J. Federer

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. — Gyorgy Kepes

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head. — William J. Federer

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing. — Rebecca Ferguson

History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important.
Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All the the numbers are on a combination lock but it will not open till they are in the right sequence.
So it is with history - all the names, dates and places are there, but it is not until they are seen from the right perspective that lessons become clear. history is boring, until it comes into focus. — William J. Federer

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>
LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>
POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>
VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>
PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet ... ) & EDUCATION
so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY. — William J. Federer

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH

(Name of chapter) — William J. Federer

For PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. — William J. Federer