William Blake Quotes

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

William Blake

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Ride
  • Australia
  • Motorcycle

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • House
  • You
  • Fire

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mind
  • American
  • Chance

• There are no ordinary moments.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Moments
  • Ordinary

• The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Mysterious

• When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Know
  • New
  • Say

• Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Moral

• Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Life
  • Believe
  • High

• Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

  

  William Blake
  • Life
  • Light
  • Wonders