Simon Armitage Quotes

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Simon Armitage

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• I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
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  • Song
  • Name

• 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
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• Having a family is a compromise on some level, but it's so incredibly worth it. It actually informs the work that I do as a DP.

  

  Rachel Morrison
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• I can't spare this man, he fights!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Fights
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• There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Live
  • Mind
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• Be a voice not an echo.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Voice
  • Echo

• Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Sacrifice
  • Acknowledge
  • Arrangements

• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Powerful
  • Imagination

• I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Change
  • Forgives
  • Ascend

• We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

  

  William McDonough
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Tree

• We have great support in town and the union boys are right behind us as well. We get on real well with them. They come to the games and celebrate with us.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Support
  • Boys
  • Town

• The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Spirit
  • Obedience

• People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.

  

  David Wessel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Government

• When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Adversity
  • Thankful
  • Misfortune

• Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Success
  • Curiosity
  • Comes

• The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Instinct
  • Gone

• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

  

  Simon Armitage
  • Comes
  • Misfortune
  • Chose