William Shakespeare Quotes

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

William Shakespeare

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • House
  • You
  • Leave

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Racism
  • Will
  • Discrimination

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Wisdom

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Bad
  • History
  • Organization

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Record

• You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • World
  • Start
  • Little Things

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Stand
  • Big

• If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Saying
  • Immigrants

• There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

  

  A. S. Byatt

• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Great
  • Power

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• I am Providence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Control

• Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Most people think I'm from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn't get no girls... I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People
  • Deep

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.

  

  Nilsson
  • Happens
  • Songwriting
  • Melody

• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Night
  • Society
  • Rest

• Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

  

  Sarah Hall
  • Solitude
  • Conditions

• Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Solitude
  • Comfort
  • Sociable