Wallace Stevens Quotes

Death is the mother of beauty

Wallace Stevens

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Difficult
  • Name
  • More

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Best
  • Fact

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • College
  • Politics
  • Gold

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Love
  • Want
  • Times

• On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Style

• It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Book
  • Pain

• It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Environment

• Death is the mother of beauty

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death