Robert Frost Quotes

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Robert Frost

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • City
  • Order

• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Career
  • Humour

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

  

  Carla Hall
  • School
  • Why
  • Me

• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Future
  • Idea
  • Debt

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Existence
  • Rules
  • Rule

• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Myths

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Ambition

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Music
  • Inspired

• Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Faith

• Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• You know in fairness Gary [Johnson] and I have not agreed on a number of substantive issues in this campaign, tax policy, we've had some influence on each other, I think I've had some influence on him, on constructive engagement around the world, he's had some influence on me in criminal justice reform issues.

  

  William Weld
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Justice

• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Lost
  • Poetry
  • Interpretation