Walter de La Mare Quotes
We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!
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No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
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Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
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It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
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We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
