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.John Drinkwater
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.
Edmund Morgan -
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Nathan Fillion -
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou -
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone -
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston -
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.
Olga Korbut -
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
Carlos Beruff -
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
Andrew Motion -
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
Marianne Williamson -
Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.
Vladimir Putin -
To laugh is to live profoundly.
Milan Kundera -
We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.
Emile Coue -
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John Drinkwater