John Keats Quotes

For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

John Keats

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
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• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  

  Rand Paul
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• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
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• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
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• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
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• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
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• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
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  • Fierce

• I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Respect
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  • Green

• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Done
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• I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

  

  Lance Gross
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• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up

• A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• 'I see Alvin with a son. That what he want most.''I see him with a woman,' said Rien. 'That is what he miss the most.''I see him kneeling by a child’s grave,' said Dead Mary. 'That is what he fears the most.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Son

• They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Beautiful

• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
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  • Eight

• For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

  

  John Keats
  • Calm