William Wordsworth Quotes
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Quotes to Explore
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
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Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
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I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
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My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
