William Shakespeare Quotes

Life's uncertain voyage.

William Shakespeare

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• I have a sweet tooth problem. On tour, in catering, the dessert was always so good. When we started the tour I was in the best shape of my life, but by the end of it I was horrible.

  

  Kevin McHale
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sweet

• Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Words

• It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from Aristotle, that it is not limited to a very few perfect individuals.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Life
  • Human
  • Friendship

• What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Book
  • Goals

• I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Home

• Life's uncertain voyage.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Philosophical
  • Uncertain