Alan Seeger Quotes

Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

Alan Seeger

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Laughed
  • Comedies
  • Our

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Day
  • Person
  • Alive

• I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She

• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Trying

• El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Work

• I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Work
  • Important

• We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

  

  Donald Trump
  • President
  • Intelligence
  • Cunning

• When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

  

  Philip Kerr

• I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Good
  • Writing

• People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • People

• I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.

  

  Marion Jones
  • Free
  • Drug

• Wir sollen immer verzeihen, dem Reuigen um seinetwillen, dem Reuelosen um unseretwillen.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• After raising twins, you get organized.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Organized
  • Raising

• Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

  

  Alan Seeger
  • Heart
  • Loveless