William Gifford Quotes

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

William Gifford

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• Fate
• Shame
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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Young

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Hate
  • Respect

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Simple

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hate

• I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Music
  • Hate

• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  

  W. L. George
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Enemies

• Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Sweet
  • Fate

• Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Enemy

• I hate these fucking stretch bastards junk pimp mobiles!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Hate

• Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Experience
  • Fun

• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Chicago
  • February
  • January

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Children
  • Girl

• The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Life
  • World
  • Play

• A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

  

  William Gifford
  • Hate
  • Fate
  • Shame