James Russell Lowell Quotes

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Think
  • Company
  • Bitcoin

• Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Always

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Right
  • Will

• I try to let my game speak for itself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Speak
  • Try

• My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Art
  • Father
  • Child

• The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Problem
  • Islam

• (intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Book

• Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • She
  • Search

• My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life

• But now I see I was not plucked for naught,And after in life's vaseOf glass set while I might survive,But by a kind hand broughtAliveTo a strange place.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Hand

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth
  • Path

• Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Bono U2
  • Interesting
  • Rock
  • Aesthetic

• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Boy

• You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• I love the process - collaborating with the photographers, traveling, and seeing different cultures. My mother always said I would regret it if I didn't do it. And I think she was right.

  

  Freja Beha Erichsen
  • Different
  • She
  • Mother

• Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Practice

• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  

  James Russell Lowell