W. H. Auden Quotes

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

W. H. Auden

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• The life of an actor can be very enviable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
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• There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Life
  • Value
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• Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Life
  • Important
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• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Fabulous
  • Madonna

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Dove

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Life
  • Home
  • Learning

• Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

  

  William Gurnall
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Sleep

• I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • World

• Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pride

• Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • World
  • Mind

• An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • Men
  • Crying