William Blake Quotes

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

William Blake

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• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Justice
  • Internet
  • Devil

• I want people to be happy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Success

• When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Life
  • Night
  • Black

• Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Different
  • Concentrate
  • Compete

• Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • May
  • Opinion
  • Competition

• Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Love
  • Someday

• She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

  

  Lisa See
  • She
  • Show
  • Loves

• One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Interest
  • Old

• The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gift
  • Gods
  • Old Age

• I don't want to, anyway. I've got a job here with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'm at home and I don't want to leave home. Living at home is a big plus after you've been gone from home for 55 years.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Home
  • Job
  • Devil

• Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • Innocent
  • Envy

• What was that, Kylie? Just a thank-you for saving your life.. or was it more?

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life

• Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Guidance

• If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Doubt
  • Adventure
  • Beard

• Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

  

  Confucius
  • Actions
  • Motives
  • Examine

• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  

  Nella Larsen
  • Laughter
  • Destruction
  • Spontaneous

• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  

  William Blake
  • Destruction
  • Rage
  • Swallows