Matthew Arnold Quotes

Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither’d leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!

Matthew Arnold

• Autumn

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• Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • May
  • Want
  • Question

• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Women
  • Game

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Important
  • Freedom

• The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • American
  • Moral

• Dolce cosa era la patria.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• My own belief is all men should be feminists, and with enthusiasm.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Men

• As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Important
  • Meaningful

• I'm like Shrek. Shrek's a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I'm very loving and kind and generous - I'm a sweetheart!

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Responsibility
  • Regret

• Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • World
  • Real
  • Together

• Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• I agree with him that we are going to work together for having this strategic agreement between United States and Iraq, and also to continue our cooperation in our struggle against terrorism and for promotion of democracy in Iraq and in Middle East.

  

  Jalal Talabani
  • Work
  • Together
  • Democracy

• Later Apollo flights were able to do more and move further in order to cover larger areas, particularly when the Lunar Rover vehicle became available in 1971.

  

  Neil Armstrong

• While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Community
  • Practice
  • Moral

• No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Real

• I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with being on the pedestal or the poster. That's just not who I am. I'm more like the grunt. I want to be the guy behind the guy.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Guy
  • Game

• We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Moment
  • Ordinary
  • Spend

• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Paradise
  • Superman

• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  

  Sarah Doudney
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Water

• Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither’d leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Autumn