William Shakespeare Quotes

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

William Shakespeare

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Would
  • Push
  • Probability

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Independent
  • Yourself

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Name
  • Fat

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Play
  • I Can

• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • Force
  • Create

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

  

  Camilo Jose Cela
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Down

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Words
  • Meaning
  • Tools

• They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sleep
  • Democracy

• President Xi Jinping clearly understands, and I think agrees, that the situation in North Korea has intensified and has reached a certain level of threat that action has to be taken. And, indeed, the Chinese, even themselves, have said that they do not believe the conditions are right to engage in discussions with the government in Pyongyang. And so what I think we're hopeful is that we can work together with the Chinese to change the conditions in the minds of the DPRK leadership.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • Together
  • Taken
  • President

• No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Money
  • Taken
  • Pleasure