James Russell Lowell Quotes

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

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• Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Heart
  • You
  • Decision

• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Balance
  • Financial

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Nothing recedes like progress.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Like
  • Progress
  • Nothing

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Promise

• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Dance

• I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Done
  • Football

• It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Successful

• I am not as simple as I look.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Simple
  • Look

• We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Thought
  • Goals

• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Me
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Person
  • Circumstances

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

  

  Epictetus
  • Wisdom
  • Changed
  • Strenght

• I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Work

• I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Feminist

• The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

  

  George Grenville
  • Beauty
  • Fancy
  • Examination

• We have agreed. They (Pakistan) have agreed to withdraw troops from the present positions. There is no two opinion about it, both sides have agreed.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Present
  • Opinion
  • Position

• If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

  

  James Russell Lowell