William Ernest Henley Quotes
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
William Ernest Henley
Quotes to Explore
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
Adam Grant
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
Iggy Azalea
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
Eddi Reader
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A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
Iain Banks
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For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.
Deborah Tannen
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It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
Olive Schreiner
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I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
Billy Crystal
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Jaron Lanier
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Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
William Ernest Henley