Jack Gilbert Quotes
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
Quotes to Explore
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.
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We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.
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God is a geometrician.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.
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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
