Walter de La Mare Quotes

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

Walter de La Mare

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Short

• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Live
  • Facts

• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Advice
  • Wants

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Trust
  • Fact
  • Main

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Other

• I’m proud of what I’ve put out into the world and I love connecting with my fans and being a part a community of people who just love music and who hold on to hope that things can be better if we come together and lift each other up.

  

  Grace Weber
  • Community
  • Fans
  • Part

• I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Life
  • Business
  • Kind