William Shakespeare Quotes

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

William Shakespeare

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • Phoenix

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Building

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Why
  • Together
  • Nature

• Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

  

  Banksy
  • Important
  • Art
  • Same

• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fear
  • Snakes

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Religion

• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Girl
  • Faster
  • East Coast

• Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Idea
  • Everyone

• Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. Now, in its immortality, it plays On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Death
  • Ironic

• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

  

  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Heart

• I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Desire

• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Free
  • Universities

• Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Melancholy