William Ernest Henley Quotes

Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Future

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Money
  • Small

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Country
  • Running
  • Religious

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

  

  Andrew Carnegie

• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Family

• Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Up

• Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Black