William Blake Quotes

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

William Blake

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Fierce

• We came up short on offense and that's on me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Tactics

• Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Years
  • Newspapers

• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • May
  • Always

• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Good
  • Directors

• I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Financial
  • Voice

• Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

  

  James Stewart
  • Fear
  • Mistake
  • Judgment

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

  

  George Foreman
  • America
  • Should
  • Muhammad

• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Talk

• Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Souls
  • Desires
  • Direct

• Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Desires
  • Love Of God
  • Rooted

• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Earth

• George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Because
  • Scariest
  • t

• Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

  

  William Blake
  • Desires
  • Infant
  • Secret Smiles