William Wordsworth Quotes

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth

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• Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Support
  • Look

• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Think
  • Know
  • Try

• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Woman
  • Perspective
  • Bring

• Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Time
  • Different
  • Poetry

• I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• You must also have a sense of when to stop.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop

• As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Great
  • May
  • Past

• All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • People

• Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Good
  • High
  • Quality

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• There is a high cost for low living.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • High

• I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • House

• The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Family

• It was cool though, as it was the start of that era of music technology, so we were miles ahead of some people with what we were doing.

  

  Kevin Saunderson
  • Music
  • Technology
  • ERA

• I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • People
  • Song
  • Angry

• I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Health

• When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

  

  John Otto Limp Bizkit
  • Time
  • Practice

• The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

  

  William Wordsworth