William Cullen Bryant Quotes
And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
William Cullen Bryant
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
Karl Lehmann
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
Saint Ignatius
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Larry Bird
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah bint Saud
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
Dan Gilbert
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Gary Larson
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'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
Olivia Thirlby
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
Jacob Dalton
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It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
Alan Ball
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It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'
W. H. Auden
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Clarum et venerabile nomengentibus.
Lucan
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You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.
Michael Jackson
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We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.
D. H. Lawrence
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And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
William Cullen Bryant
