William Blake Quotes
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
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A Khaled record is always the best.
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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
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I was born in Homestead, Florida.
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I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
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'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.
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I kissed Madonna a few times.
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I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
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Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world.
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Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
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Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.
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Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you fuck them and a creep if you don't.
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Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.
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You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
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The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.
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The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
