William Wordsworth Quotes

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

William Wordsworth

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• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Accomplishment

• The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Culture
  • Growth

• I know when the Berlin wall went down and I walked into what was East Berlin and saw two big Nike banners - that gave me a chill.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Wall
  • Chill

• Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Failure

• You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Country

• As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.

  

  Phil Lord
  • Fun
  • Son
  • Vacation

• Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Education
  • Support

• And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

  

  Martin Rees
  • May
  • American
  • Science

• What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • People
  • Trump

• You want to play as long as you can. The old, unwritten rule: If you make it to the NBA, you play as long as you can - and you play one more year.

  

  Dell Curry
  • Long

• We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

  

  John Thorn
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Minds

• No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

  

  William Cowper
  • Acceptance
  • Traveler
  • Abode

• I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Film
  • Ego

• Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Mankind
  • Traveler

• I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Country
  • Family
  • Home

• A wise traveler never despises his own country.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country
  • Travel
  • Wise

• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate – love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Love
  • Calm
  • Serene

• I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

  

  William Bennett
  • Country
  • Black
  • Purpose

• I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Trade
  • Ruin
  • Peasants

• Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Society
  • Human Beings
  • Cooperate

• And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Traveler
  • Serene