Ralph Hodgson Quotes
Without a wish, without a will, / I stood upon that silent hill / And stared into the sky until / My eyes were blind with stars and still / I stared into the sky.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
-
I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
-
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
-
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
-
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
-
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
-
Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
-
I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
-
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
-
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
-
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
-
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
-
Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
-
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
-
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
-
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
-
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
-
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
-
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
-
Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome.
-
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
-
My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
-
I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.
-
Without a wish, without a will, / I stood upon that silent hill / And stared into the sky until / My eyes were blind with stars and still / I stared into the sky.
