William Cavendish Quotes

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

William Cavendish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1505 - October 25, 1557

Topics

LightHorseNewNothingHandHim

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

Joanna Scott

WordsLanguageMeaningTryingRules

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

Joan Didion

PeopleLeavingCaliforniaEverything

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

Jerry Kramer

LifeBestMy LifePlayWatching

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

Sonny Bill Williams

ComeWantedReallyOlympics

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

Simon Mainwaring

GoodLiveCommunityWorldReality

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

RJ Cyler

LifeGirlTogetherKissYouPerfect

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

Lucy Punch

ChangeTimeNameRememberLongYou

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Chris Bell

CompetitionProblemTryingOutBeat

I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.

Chrissy Teigen

LoveSocial MediaCrazyLovedMedia

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Peter Schuyler

IntelligenceRightComingOwnAlong

You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.

Peter Billingsley

WorkTimeLongYouLong TimeGoing

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Shashi Tharoor

PoliticalIndiaThirtyPatternsOwn

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