F.S. Flint Quotes

Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.

F.S. Flint

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• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Fight

• Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Interested
  • Hamlet
  • Likeability

• Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Potential

• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• We shared our father with the world.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Father
  • Our

• Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Test
  • Location
  • Geology

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

  

  Charli XCX
  • She

• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • People
  • Education
  • Sports

• I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • World
  • Remember
  • Pink

• Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

  

  Earl Blaik
  • Good

• The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Men
  • Age
  • Man

• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Book
  • Words
  • Law

• Rhyme and metre are artificial and an external addition to poetry.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Poetry
  • Rhyme
  • Metre