William Shakespeare Quotes

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

William Shakespeare

• Enemy
• Dancing
• Dancer
• Flattery
• Smooth

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Different
  • Style

• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Science
  • Short

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Book
  • Boxes
  • Decorating

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Work
  • Single
  • Problem

• I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Ideas
  • Keys
  • Pound

• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Giving
  • Possibility
  • Defeat

• Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

  

  Douglas Hyde
  • People
  • Youth
  • Complaining

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Dancing
  • Dancer