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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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
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
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
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
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
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Alan Alda
Every reader his or her book.
S. R. Ranganathan
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
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
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison
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
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
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
There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.
Jon Landau
For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.
R. J. Cutler
Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.
Nancy Hale
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