William Blake Quotes

The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed.

William Blake

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• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Brave
  • Finding

• The shortness of the woman’s replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn’t particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Humanity

• I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Women

• Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Simplicity

• Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

  

  John Boyega
  • People
  • Happy
  • Reality

• I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Great
  • Boy
  • Shine

• The biggest challenge for me, for all of us, was that the consumer-credit market was very, very new for India and for ICICI. I was trying to create something that was not just new for me but absolutely unknown to the organization and the country as a whole.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

  

  John Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

  

  Rachel Grady
  • People
  • School
  • High

• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

  

  Confucius
  • Progress
  • Give Up
  • Moderate

• The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Kids
  • Understanding
  • Clear

• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fire
  • Weak
  • Haste

• Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.

  

  Henry J. Kaiser
  • Life's Plan
  • Action
  • Want

• The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.

  

  Georges Cuvier
  • Food
  • Structure
  • Vegetables

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed.

  

  William Blake
  • Hills
  • Leaped
  • Echoed