William Blake Quotes

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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• I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Baby
  • Identity

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Power

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Drama
  • Understand
  • Eagles

• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Wish
  • Ever
  • Else

• The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Think
  • Football

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Life
  • Independent
  • For Her

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Process
  • Architecture

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Should
  • Popular

• There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Team
  • Dinner

• Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Words
  • Energy
  • Generate

• There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently – without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Love
  • Person

• Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Support
  • Lost
  • Church

• I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • War
  • Conversation
  • I Hate

• In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

  

  Jan Koum

• A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

  

  William Blake
  • Church
  • Conversation
  • Pub