Seamus Heaney Quotes

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Seamus Heaney

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• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Space
  • Use

• Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Different
  • Gunpowder

• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Attempt

• It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Endless

• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Advanced
  • Private Interest
  • Publique

• Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knows
  • Really
  • Sacrificed

• Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowing
  • Royal
  • Tao

• I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Thinking
  • Looks

• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Intellect
  • Passions
  • Gratification

• My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Simple
  • Philosophy
  • Common

• I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Today
  • Ends
  • Decided

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Stones
  • Oneself