e. e. cummings Quotes

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Organization
  • Step

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I love to cook and I cook to love.

  

  Elizabeth Falkner
  • I Love
  • Cook

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.

  

  John Conyers
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Military

• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Wonder