William Shakespeare Quotes
The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
William Shakespeare
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
Barry Unsworth
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
Federica Mogherini
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Owen D. Young
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Ida Tarbell
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As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.
Ulysses S. Grant
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
Plotinus
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
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With love's light wings did I o'er–perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.
William Shakespeare
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I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
William Shakespeare
