William Shakespeare Quotes

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

William Shakespeare

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• Meek

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Strong

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• People love gentle larceny.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Love
  • Gentle

• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • May
  • Earth
  • Explore

• My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Generation

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Man

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Responsibility

• Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Future
  • Earth

• The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • High
  • Earth
  • Strong

• Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Country

• Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • American
  • Law
  • Directors

• O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Gentle
  • Bleeding