William Shakespeare Quotes

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

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• Fate
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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
  • Kissing

• After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Training
  • Inspiration
  • Jewelry

• I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Myself

• I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Picture

• Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Political

• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Challenge
  • Lunch
  • Climb

• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Live

• If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Needs

• He must needs go that the devil drives.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Needs
  • Fate
  • Devil

• That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

  

  Isambard K. Brunel
  • Men
  • Accident
  • Instructions

• Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Complicated

• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Needs
  • Wind