William Shakespeare Quotes

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

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• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  

  Ed Smith
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Why
  • Best
  • Ideas

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • World
  • Forget
  • Boxing

• I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Actually
  • Divorced
  • Annulments

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Sense

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Football

• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Light
  • Quiet
  • Telephone

• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Something
  • Away
  • Arts

• Reason alone does not suffice.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Alone

• In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Exercise

• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Mind

• Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Serious
  • Wise
  • Charity

• Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Animal
  • Kissing
  • Jungle

• Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.

  

  Backseat Goodbye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Up

• This moment was the apotheosis of the postmodern era - the era of images and perceptions. Wind conditions were also favourable; within hours, Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Taken
  • Wind

• Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Big Sister

• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fire
  • Ends
  • Kissing