Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despairElla Wheeler Wilcox
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans -
You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
Laura Donnelly -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
Earl Browder -
I choose to express myself.
Dan Fogelberg -
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
Carlos Ghosn -
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
Naomi Campbell -
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
Laura Schlessinger -
We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
Maggie Hassan -
These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih
T. S. Eliot
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The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
Galway Kinnell -
Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Aravind Adiga -
If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
Angus King -
I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
Ai Weiwei -
By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.
Alastair Reynolds -
One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.
Bob Colacello
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Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
Larry Norman -
Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
Mike Posner -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman -
How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair
Ella Wheeler Wilcox