William Blake Quotes

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

William Blake

• Indignation
• Voice Of God
• Voice Of Honest

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• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

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• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

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• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

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• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

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• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
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• Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.

  

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• The taxpayers deserve accountability.

  

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• Don't let people see when you're mad - just smile and laugh.

  

  Astro
  • People
  • Smile
  • Mad

• We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
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• I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Great
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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Powerful
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• I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Horse

• How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Experience

• The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Good

• One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

  

  Desmond Dekker
  • Home
  • Song
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• I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.

  

  Cheryl Cole

• If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

  

  Lynn Good

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
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  • Story

• What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
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• Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Trouble
  • Conversation
  • Possible

• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Misunderstood
  • Imposition

• The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

  

  William Blake
  • Indignation
  • Voice Of God
  • Voice Of Honest