Alfred the Great Quotes

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

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• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Kids
  • Teacher
  • Involved

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Men
  • Present

• 'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Job
  • Reflection

• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Hand
  • Band
  • Air

• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • History
  • Earth

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Movie

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I've been staying at their lodge in the Himalayas for years, ... They have this beautiful lodge. You look out and there's Ama Dablam. Oh man, it's like heaven.

  

  Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks
  • Heaven
  • Lodge

• When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Heaven
  • Sun
  • Stars