William Shakespeare Quotes

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

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• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Give

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Important
  • Play
  • Enough

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • High
  • President
  • Hands

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Algerian

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Great
  • King

• Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

  

  Sophocles
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Chance

• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Work
  • Want
  • Like

• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Truth

• A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Eye