James Russell Lowell Quotes

He stood a spell on one foot fustThen stood a spell on t' other,An' on which one he felt the wustHe could n't ha' told ye nuther.

James Russell Lowell

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• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Mercy

• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Appreciate

• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Done
  • Practice

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Boxing

• We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • World
  • Voice

• When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Find
  • Jeans

• I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Excellence
  • Craft
  • Stubborn

• I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Movies
  • Drink
  • Russia

• I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Today
  • Lot
  • Struggled

• When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Yourself
  • Loved

• Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Want
  • Young

• I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

  

  Arnold Mindell
  • Leadership
  • Project
  • Potential

• For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

  

  John Barrasso
  • People
  • Wife
  • Cancer

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Science
  • Faith
  • I Consider

• He stood a spell on one foot fustThen stood a spell on t' other,An' on which one he felt the wustHe could n't ha' told ye nuther.

  

  James Russell Lowell