Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Muriel Rukeyser

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Fierce
  • Guidance
  • Bravery

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Source
  • Fish

• We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Communicate
  • Physical
  • Often

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Communicate
  • Genuine

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Fierce

• We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fierce

• The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
  • Wisdom
  • Fierce

• I think I've shown the world I'm a fierce competitor, yes. But I've also shown them that I'm a fierce human being.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • World
  • Fierce

• Despite my fierce opposition to the bill, I signed up for insurance through the exchanges and instructed my staff do the same.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Up
  • Insurance
  • Fierce

• 'I'm in the Lord's hands,' he said humbly. 'I'm but a penny whistle for His breath to blow on.' This he said with such solemnity that the meaning of a fanatic was suddenly revealed to me. One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.

  

  John Buchan
  • Imagination
  • Blow
  • Fierce

• At eurovision, The Armenians are killing me with their hair and especially the fierce cateye liner! LOVE! I am part Armenian, in fact.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Hair
  • Fierce

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Country
  • Science
  • Control

• The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Moon

• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • History
  • Nature
  • Ideas

• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • Inventor

• I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Reading
  • Because
  • Shopping

• I guess you can find about 20 guys that I like, and when you hear my music, you can hear a little of this, a little of that, a little up, a little down. You put ‘em all in a bowl and stir ‘em up, you get a Bobby Rush.

  

  Bobby Rush
  • Music
  • Like
  • Hear

• There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Tragedy
  • Terrible

• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Women

• As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Source
  • Communicate
  • Fierce