Seamus Heaney Quotes
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
Seamus Heaney
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
Alfred North Whitehead
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
Adam Smith
I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.
Chiang Kai-shek
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
Danny Glover
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
Ari Fleischer
Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
L'Wren Scott
The dews of Hermon rest upon thee now,Fair saint and martyr! and yet once againFaith, hope and charity, like gracious rain,Fall on thy consecrated virgin brow.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
Daniel Johns
Silverchair
The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.
Borje Ekholm
I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.
Jacques Villeneuve
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
Seamus Heaney