William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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Men meet; mountains, never.
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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
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Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.
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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
