William Shakespeare Quotes

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

William Shakespeare

• Heaven
• Spirit
• Virtue
• Thanks
• Excellence

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Couple
  • Said

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Me
  • Finish
  • University

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Girl
  • Wish

• Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

  

  Vijay
  • Film
  • Big
  • Parcel

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• I'm a firm believer in time. I know a lot of people don't believe in time like I do, but I think time heals and kind of reveals all for me.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Wonder
  • Suffering
  • Afraid

• Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Travel
  • Easy
  • Adventure

• I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Past
  • Regret

• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Spirit
  • Virtue