Richard Aldington Quotes

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

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• Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Understand
  • Tools

• As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Learned
  • Create
  • Strange

• I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Win

• And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Work
  • Different
  • American

• Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • People

• I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

  

  Danny McBride

• 'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Mind
  • Cool

• If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Why
  • Rock
  • Star

• I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.

  

  Max Greenfield

• I sort of have to have a positive outlook.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Positive

• The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Patience

• If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • People

• So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Women
  • Empowering

• For the most part, and even with Miz, the WWE superstars are so good to the fans and everything they do.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Good

• I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• For a cap and bells our lives we pay,Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking:'Tis heaven alone that is given away,'Tis only God may be had for the asking.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • God
  • May
  • Soul

• Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Night

• At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Night
  • Heaven
  • Moon