Edmund Spenser Quotes

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

Edmund Spenser

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• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • True
  • Identity

• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Constitution

• No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Environmental
  • Wilderness

• The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Model

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes

• One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Run
  • Leg

• Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Shadow
  • Everyone
  • Oneself

• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

  

  Alice Walker

• I have forgotten much, but still rememberThe poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Red
  • December

• Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Marriage
  • Excuses

• If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Universe

• I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Heart

• As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Gypsy

• When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • May
  • Present
  • Marriage

• No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

  

  Edmund Spenser