William Braithwaite Quotes

Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.

William Braithwaite

• Silence
• Summer
• Shadow
• Stealing
• Burning
• Thousand
• Breasts

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • World
  • Want
  • Player

• My children are grown now, they are more independent.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Independent
  • Now

• That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Way
  • Give
  • Favors

• Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Important
  • Feeling

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Political
  • Ignorance

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Innocent

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Alone

• It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. This gloom is the darkness of the sea.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Influence
  • Reasons
  • Effect

• MT Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Life
  • God
  • Women

• I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Science

• When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

  

  Azealia Banks
  • Rap

• When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.

  

  Jes Macallan
  • God
  • Women
  • Friendship

• We are far from understanding how to achieve adaptively efficient economies because allocative efficiency and adaptive efficiency may not always be consistent. Allocatively efficient rules would make today's firms and decisions secure - but frequently at the expense of the creative destruction process that Schumpeter had in mind.

  

  Douglass North
  • Mind
  • May
  • Today

• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Summer
  • Comforting

• I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Hurt
  • Silence

• I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars...

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Love
  • Smoke
  • Cigars

• Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.

  

  William Braithwaite
  • Silence
  • Summer
  • Shadow