William Shakespeare Quotes

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Guy

• Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

  

  Gary Owens
  • School
  • High
  • Military

• We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Free
  • Support

• The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Way
  • End
  • Belt

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mom
  • Compass
  • Nickname

• You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Actor

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Day
  • Broken
  • Stand

• I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Stop

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Fear
  • Moral
  • Compassion

• I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • People
  • Great

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Conscience
  • Believes

• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Faith
  • Waiting
  • Sea

• Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.

  

  Chris Patten
  • Family
  • Discipline

• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Patience
  • Cake
  • Wheat