William Blake Quotes

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

William Blake

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• I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

  

  Felix Hernandez
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• It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

  

  Omar Epps
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• Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
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• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Light
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• I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• There's a lot involved in going to the bathroom for women.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Women

• I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Why
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone with a disability can be strong and beautiful and successful as an athlete.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • America

• I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I will very happily grow old in the comedic world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, if they would keep having me over and over.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • World

• We try to find the information, the clues, to unlock the play or the story or our characters, especially when they're based on real people that live and breathe.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Up
  • True
  • Vision

• Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Power
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• All new news is old news happening to new people.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • News

• Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Place
  • Dull
  • Heavens

• You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

  

  Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Stars
  • Lake
  • Heavens

• Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • God
  • Strong
  • Present

• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Believe
  • Gift
  • Greatest

• Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  

  William Blake
  • Heavens
  • Pearl
  • Golden Gate