William Shakespeare Quotes

I would fain die a dry death.

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• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  

  Jack Steinberger
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• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.

  

  Alberto Korda
  • World
  • Wish
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• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Fear

• Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Focus

• We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Past
  • Stop
  • Choices

• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Jesus
  • Prayer
  • Perseverance

• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Things are simple when you're going to die.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Death
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  • Dying

• A man can die but once.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • War
  • Dies

• When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Blind
  • Despair
  • Dies

• I die hard but am not afraid to go.

  

  George Washington
  • Hard
  • Dies

• I would fain die a dry death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dies
  • Memorable
  • Dry