William Shakespeare Quotes

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Intensity

• Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

  

  Lactantius
  • World
  • Believe
  • Men

• Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Direction

• The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

• Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

  

  Nahum Tate
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Desire

• Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Women
  • Compassion

• Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Action

• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Hero

• Every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Lessons

• It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

  

  Balfour Stewart
  • Taken

• I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Cool

• A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.

  

  J. J. Hardy

• We have received a communication from Jean le Flambeur. He claims that in precisely 57 minutes, he is going to steal a ring of Saturn.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Communication
  • Jean le Flambeur
  • Ring of Saturn

• Anytime you have a coach address the team after a loss, you feel disappointed it had to get to this point. That bad part is we've heard this before.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Team
  • Coach
  • Disappointed

• Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Respect

• To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dies
  • Seeking