Williams Defeated World

Famous quotes containing the words williams, defeated and/or world:

    This was I,
    a sparrow.
    I did my best;
    farewell.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    If I am defeated for the next nomination, I think it will be by [Charles Evans] Hughes. And I don’t think he will allow his name to be used unless he really feels that I have no chance to win. I do not think Theodore Roosevelt will allow his name to come before the convention.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)