W. H. Auden Quotes
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
-
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Karen DeCrow -
I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
Randee Heller -
In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
Halle Berry -
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
Saint Ignatius -
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Sam Houston -
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence
-
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera -
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant -
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil -
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
Gay Talese -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
Damian Lewis
-
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
Samuel Fuller -
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali -
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
Pamela Meyer -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
Orison Swett Marden -
At 6 foot 7 Peter Crouch isn't as tall as he looks.
Gabrielle Nicole "Gabby" Logan -
With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.
Valtteri Bottas -
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.
Annie Besant -
I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.
Clarence Clemons -
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
W. H. Auden