Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.Stephen Spender
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
Sam Smith -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown -
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
Pat Summerall -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld -
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
Randall Park -
I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
Carine Roitfeld -
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides -
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
Kangana Ranaut -
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
Ted Cruz
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Coal is a portable climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
O. Henry -
Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.
Clive Barker -
I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.
Bill Clegg -
The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
Kathy Valentine -
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
Markus Persson
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal -
Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.
Saint Basil -
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender