William Blake Quotes

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Mind
  • Chance
  • Unexpected

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Like

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • World
  • History
  • Change

• Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Marketing
  • Mouth

• Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • People
  • Only
  • Hopeless

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Life
  • Up
  • Change

• I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Liberty
  • Restrict

• If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Men
  • Liberty

• To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

  

  Ernst Cassirer
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Adventure

• Nature is where my heart is.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Heart
  • Where

• He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

  

  William Blake
  • Liberty
  • Laughing
  • Loves