William Blake Quotes

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

William Blake

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• We could have had it all...

  

  Adele
  • All
  • We

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Girl
  • Crying
  • Asshole

• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • History
  • Past
  • Perspective

• Looking silly can be ver powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Truth
  • Fun

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

  

  August Strindberg
  • People
  • Aristocrats

• I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Men
  • Everyday
  • Hollywood

• Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Rule
  • Governments

• Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Revolution
  • Danger

• Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Humanity
  • Forces

• The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Guys
  • Caught
  • Lightning

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Work

• If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Effort
  • Duty
  • Cloud

• The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Afraid

• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  

  William Blake
  • Desires
  • Built
  • Gates