Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

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• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Magic

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Green
  • Trees

• The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Embrace
  • Older

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• We shared our father with the world.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Father
  • Our

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Success
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• It's important to know, whether you're pro or anti the current president and what he's doing, that he's doing what he thinks is for the betterment of the country because his interest is to make this country a better place.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Important
  • Country

• I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Christian
  • Should

• I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Want
  • Best
  • Poetry

• But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg

• The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Evil

• Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Poetry
  • Written