William Shakespeare Quotes

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

William Shakespeare

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• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Loved
  • Radio
  • Eat

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Causes
  • Avoid
  • Compromises

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Man
  • Speak
  • Prince

• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Legal

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Possible

• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Luck
  • Views

• Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Time
  • Water

• To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rock
  • River

• I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Lost

• I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Trouble
  • Iron
  • Amauters

• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Trouble