James Russell Lowell Quotes

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

James Russell Lowell

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Neighbors

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • War
  • Ambition
  • Monster

• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Silence
  • Golden
  • Tact

• This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Time
  • Community
  • Genius

• I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Movie
  • Football
  • Player

• Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Most
  • Go

• The dieting wars have got to stop.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Stop
  • Got
  • Diet

• re: Abraham Lincoln 'Shall we stop this bleeding.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Stop

• It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Good
  • Why
  • Funny

• The dog now slept, occasionally farting very gently.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Dog

• Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Why
  • Forever

• Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.

  

  Aurora
  • Night
  • Light
  • Sky

• 'Well, what are you doing? What have you done?' 'I am sitting in this char,' said Poirot. 'Thinking,' he added. 'Is that all?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'It is the important thing,' said Poirot.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Done

• I tell people to use me as example of what they can do if they don't give up. I like people to see me as a 'girl next door' who conquered and went after what she wanted.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • Education
  • Understanding

• We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

  

  William P. Leahy
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Meetings

• Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Angry

• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  

  James Russell Lowell