William Shakespeare Quotes

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

William Shakespeare

• Grief
• Persevere
• Stubbornness
• Obstinate

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• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

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• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

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• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

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• It's a sin to be tired.

  

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• I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

  

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• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

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• I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.

  

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• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

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• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

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• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

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• I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

  

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• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  

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• What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

  

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• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  

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• The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

  

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• In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

  

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• Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

  

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• Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.

  

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• I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

  

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• God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

  

  Patrick Gordon
  • Life
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• To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Persevere
  • Stubbornness