William Jones Quotations

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Leon is connected to our community in ways that very few elected officials are. He will leave a sense of fairness and a vision that encourages all of us to find the good in each other and build up on that, as opposed to what divides us.

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

He was heavily intoxicated. Just being in the cab business, I deal with them all the time.

People are always on edge here. Nothing is safe. It's a very dangerous place.

It didn't talk, did it? That dog had to talk if it was going to win anything.

We don't expect to see rejection in the early phase. Our big concern is in the first three months,

When you're sitting at a red light, and you hear it coming, you're just waiting for it to come.

It was a joke that none of the Big 3 schools recruited Jimmy.

It seems like the weakest teams, they'll go out and get beat really bad by somebody. They come here, they bring everything. Everything they've got.

For him not to be charged with drinking and driving, it's preposterous. It's ridiculous.

You think people are homeless now, this city is really going to be homeless then. Nobody's going to have nowhere to go. You can't go back to New Orleans.

The best advice for anybody renting a car is to buy a fully inclusive rate that has all the necessary insurances included. Do not get fooled by a 'too-good to be true rate,' because it usually is.

I really encourage the citizen input and appreciate everything Mr. Mills has said and we'll look at this issue as well as any others that come to light.

I often get no answer at all. I call their 1-800 numbers and generally you get a computer and talk to no one. I've had that not once but probably a dozen times. When you do talk to somebody, you get frustrated because you can't really find out if the case is proceeding. They say they are working on it, but they don't give any details.

I'd really like to go to the State. I've never been. The regional final is the farthest I've got.

I completely understand the sensitivity and we'll certainly consider this when we meet.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets...

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.