Sappho Quotes

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Strengths
  • Connecting

• Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • People
  • Done
  • Military

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I come from a pretty strange family.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Strange

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Win
  • Matter
  • Losing

• One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Picture

• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• 'Aye. Like knows like, sister'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sister

• What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Words

• If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Law

• To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

  

  Vincent Schiavelli
  • Villain
  • Ties

• I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

  

  Betty Parsons
  • Book
  • Stop
  • Flower

• I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.

  

  Barney Greenway Benediction
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Flower
  • Blood
  • Intimate Things

• Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

  

  Sappho
  • Earth
  • Spring
  • Flower