Robert Frost Quotes

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

Robert Frost

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• Light
• Eyes
• Glory
• Meditate
• Contemplate

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Fear, she's the mother of violence.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • She
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Exercise

• Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Career
  • Period
  • Internet

• Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Light
  • Strive
  • Sweetness

• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Eyes