William Shakespeare Quotes

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

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• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Running

• My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sick
  • Kitchen
  • Go

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Girl
  • Three
  • Seven

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Writing
  • View

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Education
  • Always
  • Back

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

  

  Louise Leakey
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Earth

• Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Purpose
  • Professional
  • Organization

• If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Children
  • War
  • Strong

• What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Purpose
  • Memories
  • Determination