Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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• Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Not Knowing

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Work
  • Talk

• History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Religion is using everything for God.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Religion
  • Using

• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Find
  • Glory
  • Immortality

• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Sorrows

• Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.

  

  R. H. Barlow
  • Say
  • Land
  • Not Exist

• Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Graves
  • Resurrections

• We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Today
  • Lose
  • Tomorrow

• The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Conflict
  • Eternal

• Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Discover
  • Russia
  • Build Up

• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Virtues
  • Endeavor
  • Acquired