Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
William Empson
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You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We were watching the clock, just waiting for it to end.
CHARLIE PARRISH Don't rush into love. You'll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.
FRANZIE GUBATINA I might have to wait, I'll never give up
I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck
MICHEAL BUBBLE You have to give it a loveshot somehow
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI There is an end waiting for all of us; an end waiting to show us records of our journey. Mind the en...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.
SAMANTHA YOUNG We are asking the court to end the case. We are waiting for the court to decide.
BURT ODELSON Everyone is waiting for an end to the tightening cycle, so that's why the dollar is vulnerable.
TOMOKO FUJII This is something that investors have been waiting for for nearly a decade. It's the end of an era.
JAMES FENKNER Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.
LISA MANGUM I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Procrastination doesn't work for everything. For instance, waiting to buy plane tickets at the l...
JOHN RAMPTON Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for ...
JAMES DASHNER Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come a...
CHLOE M. GOODEN Waiting so long... for 0 result?
DEYTH BANGER All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
KAMAND KOJOURI Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May:
Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Wh...
DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY The World is waiting for you, what are you waiting for?
SOTONYE ANGA The Ache That Would Not Leave
Behind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a per...
JOHN MARK GREEN We're notorious this year for waiting until the end of games. In the seventh inning, the girls were ...
AMY BEARD I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. W...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
ROBERT BROWNING And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last jud...
BRIAN MOORE Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”
Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’v...
SAMUEL TAYLOR Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape...
MARYSE HOLDER The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for m...
WILL FERRELL If I am Eowyn... then you are my Aragorn... but where is my Faramir?
C LIONG I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actu...
RACHEL CUSK It?s definitely affected things around here, ... People come in here saying, ?I?m over it. I?m tired...
ANTHONY BROWN The phone system has been going nonstop, and I'm waiting for the initial online report. Some of our ...
KEVIN SZCODRONSKI When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting...
RITCHIE BLACKMORE In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON I'm not holding my breath waiting for anything. We're going ahead with what we think we need to do o...
JIM TALENT That's what I've been waiting for, why I stuck around -- to win football games, ... And it's a tough...
MATT BAKER The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting ...
MOHNISH PABRAI The stronger the identification with the team, typically the stronger emotional reaction to the loss...
CHRISTIAN END Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.
CHRISTIAN END In terms of popularity, what hobby compares to being a sports fan?
CHRISTIAN END When you're exposed to aggressive stimuli like you are in football, you're more prone to act in an a...
CHRISTIAN END When you're among 60,000 of your closest friends, your accountability diminishes. It's very differen...
CHRISTIAN END Waiting for you
is as delightful as
waiting for sunset.
KAMAND KOJOURI James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole fi...
WILL FERRELL If 'life begins at the end of your comfort zone,' then lots of us are waiting to get born!
DAVID L. HATTON Those waiting to see the end of the world shall be disappointed,because they will wait & eventually ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) God is waiting, heaven is waiting, and the heavenly army is waiting for us to move forward and accom...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm just waiting for the time when it's going to come together. I've been waiting for a while.
CARLOS BELTRAN I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott...
CAMILLE PAGLIA I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for ac...
NICK CANNON Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begi...
PETER HELLER This is the week for the big boys to stand up, and for the little boys to sit down. I hope I'm stand...
DANA QUIGLEY More Americans are waiting to the end to shop for Christmas than any other time in the last 10 years...
C. BRITT BEEMER In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will a...
AVIJEET DAS And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special p...
ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
LEON TROTSKY If what you are waiting for is taking too long, stop waiting, go for it
SOTONYE ANGA Don’t fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fa...
CHRIS LYNCH Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert liste...
GLENN GOULD Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has alre...
ROBERT GOOLRICK In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set...
COLIN FIRTH The vast majority of enterprises have been waiting for the technology to get more robust. Or waiting...
JAN DAWSON Basically, investors can't really take aggressive positions this week, as they are waiting for the B...
HIDEO MIZUTANI It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN This was the model that he had been waiting for all along. He was just waiting for us to catch up.
GARY KATZ The thing is that when you find true love it lives on, No matter if you two seperate but the love st...
ALAMVUSHA Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; ...
PAUL ACQUASANTA The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don...
MARK STEYN Waiting rooms might be the right thing technically since they can regulate the number of streams. Bu...
JEFF LANCTOT [Her uncle, William Kelly, sat in a driving rain outside Grace Church, waiting to hear the bells pea...
WILLIAM KELLY Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
SUZE ROTOLO We're waiting for the Penguins to respond.
ABE NAPARSTEK We've been waiting for the next call.
DEON SANTISTEVEN We're waiting for the committee to act.
NAYYERA HAQ What You Waiting For?
GWEN STEFANI Everyone in the eastern part of the country will be up well past midnight waiting for results from B...
GOLDY HYDER It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
BARRY GIBB
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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
WILLIAM EMPSON It seems unpleasantly refined
To put things off till someone knows.
WILLIAM EMPSON Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
...
WILLIAM EMPSON The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
WILLIAM EMPSON . . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be fe...
WILLIAM EMPSON The "News," the conferences that leer,
the creeping fog, the civil traps.
These are what for...
WILLIAM EMPSON It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
WILLIAM EMPSON It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you ...
WILLIAM EMPSON A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good...
WILLIAM EMPSON . . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
WILLIAM EMPSON So your flesh shall be part of mine
And part of mine be yours.
Brother and sister we shall b...
WILLIAM EMPSON It seems unpleasantly refinedTo put things off till someone knows.
WILLIAM EMPSON So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose uni...
WILLIAM EMPSON It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can't...
WILLIAM EMPSON Seven types of ambiguity.
WILLIAM EMPSON The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you int...
WILLIAM EMPSON If anything, I want to see (this program) get to the next level. We need to get into a different mod...
HEATHER EMPSON They were definitely very aggressive. Defensively, they played us much tighter than what we are used...
HEATHER EMPSON We got so much better in our four years. Basketball is more serious here now. You just don't come ou...
HEATHER EMPSON Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE