Jack Gilbert Quotes
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.Jack Gilbert
Quotes to Explore
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
Viktor Vekselberg -
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
Zachary Quinto -
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon -
You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
Camila Alves -
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
Lady Gaga -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
Damien Chazelle -
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt -
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky -
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel -
For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
Samantha Morton
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I like fighters who come to fight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
In God, there is no lack and no recession.
Marianne Williamson -
Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
Emily Bronte -
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier -
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.
Juan Manuel Santos -
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Jack Gilbert