William Blake Quotes

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

William Blake

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Pretty
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• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
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• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
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• 'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
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• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
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• He's a serious mister Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm. With Monopoly money We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips From a diamond as big as the Ritz - Then I'm calling it quits.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Hand

• 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Today

• Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Society

• If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Comedy
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• I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Writing
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• Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

  

  Akira Suzuki
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

  

  Bill Scott
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• I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Believe
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• I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Hate

• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

  

  Plato
  • Beautiful
  • Love Is
  • Desires

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  

  George Eliot
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Distance

• Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

  

  William Blake
  • Desires
  • Nurse
  • Strangle