William Henry Ogilvie Quotes
The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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Die Liebe wintert nicht;Nein! nein!Ist und bleibt Fruhlingesschein.
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The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
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My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices,They shout from the slums, from the streets, from the crowded places,And tunes from the hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoicesShoot arrows into my heart.
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
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They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.
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The moment I lose weight, it shows on my face, and given how sharp my cheek bones are, it doesn't look good.
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I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.
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Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.
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... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
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Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.
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The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.
