E. Nesbit Quotes
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.
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I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
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Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.
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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
