Richard Aldington Quotes

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

Richard Aldington

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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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Women
  • Empowering

• We greatly value the contributions of all of our employees.

  

  Geisha Williams
  • Value

• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

  

  Marcus Porcius Cato
  • Men
  • Why

• I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• (On the 1,500 meters) We went pretty slowly. It was a nice final lap for everyone. I didn't really have that last gear, but I felt really good. It is the beginning of the season and it felt good to get back into it. It is a nice night out. It was really hot earlier, but now it is a beautiful time to run.

  

  Blake Williams
  • Night
  • Season
  • Gear

• Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Mind
  • Dramatic
  • Slippery

• I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Time
  • God

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• ..crushed by the strength of this Art the old Egyptian art.. .I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us.. ..how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.

  

  Mary Cassatt
  • Art
  • Past

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

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Night
  • Heaven
  • Moon