Seamus Heaney Quotes

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Character
  • Air
  • Effort

• You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Want
  • Determined
  • Chapter

• I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Things

• We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Live
  • Shows
  • Performances

• At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Song

• She looked creepy/adorable.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Creepy
  • Adorable

• All things are photographable.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • All Things

• Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Experience
  • Entitled

• Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Why
  • Help

• Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • God
  • Shadow
  • Loved

• Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Study
  • Prayer

• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Attention

• Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

  

  V. Vale Blue Cheer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Management

• I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Long
  • Passion

• It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

  

  V. S. Pritchett

• An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • People
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  

  Catharine Macaulay
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Moral

• I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Teaching