Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dustStephen Spender
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
Cameron Russell -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
Walid Jumblatt -
I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
Eddie Huang -
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Taiye Selasi -
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
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The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.
Rand Paul -
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Orson Scott Card -
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy -
I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
Helena Blavatsky -
We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!
Kristin Chenoweth
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In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
Charlie Pierce -
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II -
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
Christopher Eccleston -
Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room. You've just got to be in the moment and go with it.
Patton Oswalt -
It is a little weird seeing photographs from parties where you didn't even know a photographer was there.
Jessie Buckley -
How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
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The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen -
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
Daniel Kahneman -
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher -
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
Stephen Spender