Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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• When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Clothes

• You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • You
  • U.S.

• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Library

• Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Feelings
  • Holy Spirit
  • inclinations

• Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Exercise

• If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Rules

• I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Ignorance
  • Naturally

• Every reader his or her book.

  

  S. R. Ranganathan
  • Book

• If I am confirmed by the Senate I will do everything in my power, in collaboration with by Fed colleagues to help assure the continued prosperity and stability of the American economy.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Power
  • American
  • Help

• When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Opportunity
  • Moments
  • Purpose

• The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Ability
  • Requisite

• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

  

  Euripides
  • Sea
  • Praise
  • Childless

• You must be aware that most men, and also not only a few women, are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

  

  William James
  • Lying
  • Order
  • Term

• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Desire

• All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Actions
  • Shakespeare

• A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wanted
  • Compromise
  • Settlement

• Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Death
  • Leap
  • Gravity

• Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Objects
  • Spectators
  • Refinement

• W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Created
  • Kingdom
  • Shakespeare