William Wordsworth Quotes

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

William Wordsworth

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• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Optimistic
  • Qualities
  • Major

• I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • May

• If a movie makes money, then it's a success.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Success

• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Why
  • Free
  • Feels

• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Novel

• Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress
  • Thought
  • Against

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • United States
  • Interests

• We think it is part of history, this embargo, but we have to find a manner and the moment in which it can be done without any difficulty, any problem.

  

  Javier Solana
  • History
  • Problem
  • Embargo

• Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Special
  • Cities
  • Attachment

• I have had a lot of success with failure

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Failure

• Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

  

  Sophocles
  • Women
  • Silence
  • Ornament

• We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Intellect

• I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Protect
  • Feminism
  • Value Systems

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Nervous
  • Bunker

• But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Intellect
  • Parcel
  • Geometric