Robert Frost Quotes

It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

Robert Frost

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• True
• Running
• Joy
• Demon
• Demons

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

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• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

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• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

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• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

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• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

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• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

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• There are charms made only for distant admiration.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

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• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

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• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

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• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

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• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

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• Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

  

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• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

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• Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

  

  Randy Pausch
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• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  

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• I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.

  

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  

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• It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • True
  • Running