William Everson Quotes

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

William Everson

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• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Different
  • House

• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  

  Plato
  • War
  • Service
  • Rewards

• Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

  

  Plato
  • Health
  • Habit
  • Virtue

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Laughter
  • Suffers

• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Action
  • inspirational
  • Traitor

• My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.

  

  William Collins
  • Human
  • Green
  • Moves

• People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...

  

  Andrew Lakey
  • Want
  • Find
  • Meaning

• It takes a great client to create great architecture.

  

  Curtis W. Fentress
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Create

• She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Human
  • Conversation
  • Carry

• Selma teaches us, as well, that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Complacency

• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Personality
  • Digital
  • Characteristics

• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Argument
  • Justification
  • Attributes

• Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

  

  William Everson
  • Attributes
  • Sanctity
  • Orchestration