William Shakespeare Quotes

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

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• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Family
  • Very
  • Religions

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Live
  • Environment

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• I believe in music because it has the power of change.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, love.

  

  John Wesley
  • Great
  • Law

• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Exercise

• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Thought

• On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Los Angeles. It was so hectic. I remember changing in my car before I went in to read.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Car

• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Sweet
  • Common