William Shakespeare Quotes
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I don't like allegories.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I channel surf like probably most people.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.
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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
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Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.
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That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
