Mark Akenside Quotes

Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.

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• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

  

  Hale White
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lies

• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Horse

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• I think theater is a core need of a community.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Think
  • Community
  • Need

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Patient

• In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Credit
  • October

• How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • King

• Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Nice

• The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Why
  • Haters

• I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • House
  • Song
  • Small

• Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Cool
  • Army

• 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

  

  Bobby Ghosh
  • Time

• I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Why

• You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Energy
  • Thoughts

• I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I felt the call to this industry because I enjoy broadcast journalism. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers; I like reading the blogs. I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Nature
  • Reading

• Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Spring
  • Force

• Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.

  

  Mark Akenside