Matthew Arnold Quotes
Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence me round, Till I possess my soul again; Till free my thoughts before me roll, Not chafed by hourly false control!
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
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I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence me round, Till I possess my soul again; Till free my thoughts before me roll, Not chafed by hourly false control!
