Witter Bynner Quotes
Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.Witter Bynner
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie -
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
Tamron Hall -
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
Orlando Bloom -
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May -
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman -
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Napoleon Hill -
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak -
New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
Hale Irwin -
The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
Rachel Zoe -
One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
Barack Obama
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell -
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Edmund Burke -
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
I. F. Stone -
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
Alfred Korzybski -
How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
Luise Rainer -
We choose mania over boredom every time.
James Gleick
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I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
James D. Watson -
At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
Matt McGorry -
I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.
Amy Hoggart -
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
Eden Hazard -
You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
Naftali Bennett -
Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.
Witter Bynner