Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• Love
• Desire
• Like
• Child
• Admiration

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Stress

• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Anyway

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Alone

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Relationship
  • Amazing
  • Producers

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Reality
  • Environment

• I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Up
  • Power
  • Technology

• I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Like
  • Outcast

• I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Kind

• To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Happy
  • Choose
  • Fortune

• I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Everyone

• Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Like