Edmund Spenser Quotes

With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear

Edmund Spenser

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• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Justice
  • Travel
  • Fight

• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Free Speech

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• Pave your own path and be fearless.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Path
  • Own
  • Fearless

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Better
  • Australia

• In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Difficult
  • Bitter
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• Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Actions

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Said
  • Kitchen
  • Restaurant

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Stop
  • Pressure
  • Threats

• I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Relationship

• Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Man

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

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  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Important

• Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Small
  • Alone

• Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • House
  • Mountain
  • Snow

• We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.

  

  Charles Glover Barkla
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Snow
  • Swimming