William Blake Quotes

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible.

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Place
  • Most
  • Still

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economics

• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Today
  • Society
  • Better

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Social
  • Terrorism

• I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Need
  • I Can

• Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Win
  • Down

• Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Magic

• I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Job
  • Way
  • Singer

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Boyfriend
  • Dancer
  • Breakup

• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Style

• I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Mad
  • Television

• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible.

  

  William Blake
  • Bible
  • Stolen
  • Writings