William Wordsworth Quotes

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

William Wordsworth

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Gold
  • Performance
  • Bear

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • True
  • Proud

• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Contempt

• The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Profound

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Men
  • May
  • Man

• Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Real
  • War

• The market is assuming that the ECB won't be hiking rates in the next couple of months. The way is open for the euro to decline further.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Market
  • Rates
  • Euro

• Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Trust

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Church

• When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Gold