William Somervile Quotes
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.William Somervile
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame -
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
Karl von Frisch -
If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
Kate Reardon -
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
Olivia Wilde
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
Iman -
I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
Karl Popper -
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble -
20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
Bono U2 -
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
Learned Hand -
What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
Joel Edgerton
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
Douglas Coupland -
We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.
Ellen Burstyn -
There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
Matt Lanter -
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Emil Cioran -
THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT
Jean Tinguely -
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
George Foreman -
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
Donald Miller -
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell -
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
William Somervile