Seamus Heaney Quotes

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

Seamus Heaney

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• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Fall

• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fear
  • Fall
  • Climb

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Just
  • Here

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Mom
  • Fall
  • Top

• I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Fall

• You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • God
  • May

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Very
  • Gender
  • Representation

• Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack.'That’s what we call a Luddite hack.'

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Fall
  • Door

• I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Stop

• I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fall

• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Dying
  • Here

• The party was beginning to get noisy-not boisterous, but noisy. It was beginning to acquire that stale air of futility to which, in the end, all parties must fall victim.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Party
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Fall
  • Emotion
  • Romance

• A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fall

• Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • World
  • May
  • Opportunity

• I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

  

  Jennifer Tilly
  • House
  • Beach
  • Blow

• I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Hours

• Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Fall
  • Here
  • Gender