Adelaide Crapsey Quotes
Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
Quotes to Explore
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Ian Mckellen
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
Barry Bonds
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
Karen Mills
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
Vanilla Ice
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Salman Rushdie
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
E. O. Wilson
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
Raney Aronson-Rath
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My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.
Tara Leigh Patrick
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There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."
Albert Camus
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Ralph Steadman
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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Henry David Thoreau
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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Brian Tracy
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Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
