A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
ISABEL ALLENDE There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a ...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Love's not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from th' entire point.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
PATRICIA CORNWELL The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
WILLIAM BOOTH The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
WILLIAM BOOTH Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortun...
MAUREEN BRADY The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be lia...
JAMES MADISON Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
LINCOLN STEFFENS Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE Henry would never come right out and tell Eddie not to do something; would never just walk up to him...
STEPHEN KING ...these things had to be kept secret because Henry was Eddie’s big brother, and Eddie adored him.
STEPHEN KING Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL Knowledge they say is power, therefore through books, you gain power, greatness and success
SUNDAY ADELAJA Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE absolute abuse of power and an act of arrogance.
CHARLES WELLS Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's no...
JUDD ROSE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN This ain't my first rodeo!".
~R. Alan Woods [1999]
R. ALAN WOODS The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things wh...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Power without abuse loses its charm.
PAUL VALERY Power without abuse loses its charm
PAUL VALERY The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corrupt...
TED NUGENT And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from the...
JOAN KONNER Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, h...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it wha...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT For the future of mankind, we have to apply one major law: WHEN YOU ABUSE YOUR POWER, YOU LOOSE YOUR...
MAURICE SPEES The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over?...
BRANDON SANDERSON We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
STEWART UDALL We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
STEWART L. UDALL When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
REBECCA MACKINNON The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fun...
DAVID BLUNKETT I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to sing...
MONICA CROWLEY You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the...
STEPHEN KING For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the...
ISMAIL KADARE Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
THOMAS PYNCHON It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the pow...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN when potential greatness meets with actual greatness, the future is inspired with hope.
CHIDI PROSPER AGBUGBA what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE We all have the power to influence others. It is up to us, whether we are going to abuse that power ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
MARISSA MEYER This is really an abuse of power. PETA and other groups are really being targeted because we are bei...
JEFFREY KERR Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, th...
ATIFETE JAHJAGA I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did t...
ELLEN BASS Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
ABU BAKR Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in ...
BEAU WILLIMON When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespea...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander i...
MAUREEN BRADY Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE (a quote from a survivor)
Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to p...
SHAHIDA ARABI Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must ...
ROMANO GUARDINI