W. H. Auden Quotes

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

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• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

  

  Victoria Wood
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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
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• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
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• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
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• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
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• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Used

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
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• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Dork

• My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

  

  Ann Hood
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• The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

  

  Catherine Marshall
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• My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'

  

  Brad Thor
  • Time
  • Good
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• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  

  W. H. Auden
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