William Blake Quotes

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

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• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Not Knowing

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Men
  • Animals
  • Regard

• The premium valuation is warranted in our view given the consistently high level of execution, the expansion into other revenue-driving channels such as entertainment and food ... and the improvement in both U.S. and international profitability.

  

  Larry Miller
  • High
  • Food
  • Driving

• Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Exercise

• How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Girls
  • Crappy

• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Society

• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • War
  • Humanity

• When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Together
  • Idea

• But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Rest

• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • High
  • Air
  • Sun

• Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Organization
  • Phones
  • Nsa

• We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Country
  • Economics

• And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Best

• Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

  

  John Milton
  • Virtues
  • Thrones
  • Dominions

• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

  

  William Blake
  • Pray
  • Virtues
  • Distress