William Empson Quotes
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.
William Empson
Quotes to Explore
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
Carine Roitfeld
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
Valerie Simpson
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida
Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
Randall Kennedy
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
Daisy Ridley
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
C. K. Williams
The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.
Donald Miller
