W. H. Auden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
-
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
-
Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
-
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
-
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
-
In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
-
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
-
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
-
It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
-
I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
-
I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
-
Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
-
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
-
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
-
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
-
It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
-
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
-
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
-
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
-
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.
-
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
