Seamus Heaney Quotes

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

Seamus Heaney

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• Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Grief
  • Sadness
  • Effects

• I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Appeared

• When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

  

  William Shatner
  • Time
  • Character
  • Film

• For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Stability
  • Elections

• The Jews are not a nation!

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Nation
  • Jews

• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Speak
  • Audience
  • Minds

• More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.

  

  Beaumont Newhall
  • Challenge
  • Communication
  • Photography

• The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

  

  Daniel Henninger
  • Internet
  • Down
  • Obvious

• The unavoidable spread of South Korean capital and information will put the North Korean government in a tight spot, to put it mildly.

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Government
  • Information
  • Spread

• God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

  

  Matt Redman
  • Firsts
  • Worship
  • Devotion

• I'm really into beaches, but I also enjoy a bit of culture. An ideal holiday would have a nice balance of the two, but I'm definitely not into adrenalin sports, nor would I enjoy spending a month solid on a beach.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Culture
  • Balance
  • Definitely

• I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Actress
  • Fascinated
  • Crew

• Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fall
  • Creating
  • Often

• A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Feels
  • Honestly
  • Sitcom

• A beam in darkness: let it grow.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Darkness
  • Grow
  • Beam

• In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Beam
  • Cursed
  • Mist