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Will Quotes
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
Will,
70
"The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts."
Will,
69
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be."
Will,
67
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Will,
67
"For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more."
Will,
66
"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
Will,
66
"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
Will,
65
"We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger."
Will,
63
"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
Will,
63
"How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?"
62
"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Will,
62
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
Will,
61
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
Will,
61
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
Will,
60
"What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!"
Will,
59
"Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will."
Will,
58
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
57
"Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry."
Will,
57
"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."
Will,
57
"If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction."
Will,
55
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
Will,
55
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
Will,
55
"My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs."
Will,
54
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
Will,
54
"It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again."
Will,
54
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
54
"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."
54
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