A. E. Coppard Quotes

“To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.”

A. E. Coppard

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• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Words
  • Language
  • Learn

• We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Long
  • Done
  • Day

• The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Good
  • Desire

• I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Director

• It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Never
  • Better
  • Down

• One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Live
  • Way
  • Peace

• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Teacher

• I'm really comfortable with myself.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Myself
  • Really
  • Comfortable

• In my opinion, it has never been proven that food even has calories. When I bite into a hamburger, I see pickle and ketchup and bun and meat, but if there's a calorie in there, it must be hidden.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Food
  • Opinion
  • Meat

• Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Health
  • Eyes

• I have rage and anger issues. So I get mad about stuff in real life, and then I yell about it onstage, and luckily, something funny ends up coming out. What I'll do is tape-record it, and it will end up coming out even funnier. And I add more punch lines.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Sweet
  • Mad
  • Laughter

• I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Wanted
  • Read

• I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Why
  • Fashion

• “To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.”

  

  A. E. Coppard
  • Mad
  • Crowd
  • Far