William Shakespeare Quotes

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

William Shakespeare

• Power
• Age
• Giving
• Honor
• Retirement

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Look
  • Fans

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Hair

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• To play opera, to play Wagner, it's a great joy.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great
  • Joy

• Half of the people in the world are below average.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Average

• As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Gay

• I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • School
  • Power
  • Blue

• And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

  

  Adele Griffin
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Shut

• Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Power
  • Age
  • Giving