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
  • Will
  • Racism
  • 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
  • History
  • Bad
  • 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

• Therefore, broadly speaking, males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Quality

• What unites them is an almost reckless desire to test themselves in the most extreme circumstances. In many respects the life they have chosen is a complete rejection of the hyped, consumerist American dream as it is dished out in reality TV shows and pop-song lyrics. They've chosen asceticism over consumption. Instead of celebrating their individualism, theyíve subjugated theirs to the collective will of an institution. Their highest aspiration is self-sacrifice over self-preservation.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Circumstances

• You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Why
  • Dark
  • Comfort

• Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Wish
  • Comfort
  • Vain

• We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.

  

  Daniel Lieberman
  • People
  • Pain
  • Challenges

• Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Solitude
  • Comfort
  • Sociable