William Blake Quotes

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

William Blake

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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

  

  Gary Hume
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• I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

  

  Edmund White
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• We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

  

  Joe Viterelli
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• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
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• It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
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• If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
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• Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
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• Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.

  

  Rob Zombie
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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
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• If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

  

  George Clooney
  • Women
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• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• I don't celebrate really crazy.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
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• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
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  • Love Is
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• From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Law
  • Passions
  • Absurdity

• The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Memory
  • Land

• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  

  William Blake
  • Passions
  • Cultivated
  • Gates Of Heaven