William Blake Quotes

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Horse
  • Gun

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

  

  Jason Day
  • History
  • Giving
  • Community

• I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Evil

• No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston

• Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

  

  David Beckham
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Passion

• I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie

• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Designer
  • Staff
  • Lean

• Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Fact
  • Production
  • Cancelled

• Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Hollywood
  • Sells
  • Generic

• I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Moral
  • I Think

• Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Cleaning

• Sometimes you just have to stop, take a deep breath and put things into perspective.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Stop
  • Perspective
  • Take

• Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Priest

• Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Existence
  • Chooses
  • Resignation

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  William Blake
  • Joys
  • Priest
  • Chooses