Joseph Howe Quotes

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe

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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Make

• If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Love

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Want

• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Science
  • Computers

• I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Game

• I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Energy
  • Myself

• But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Doing

• Strong women, that's who I really respect.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Respect

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Health
  • Read
  • Doctor

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Book
  • Marriage
  • Poetry

• One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."

  

  David Eugene Smith
  • God
  • Truth
  • Science

• I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Years
  • Young
  • Married

• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Desire
  • Records
  • Interested

• Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

  

  Joseph Howe
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Married