John Drinkwater Quotes
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone, Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.
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I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
