Edmund Blunden Quotes

They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.

Edmund Blunden

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Want
  • You
  • Point

• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Positive

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Pain

• Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Deputy
  • Agitators

• Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dad
  • Flying
  • Ride

• I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Popular

• There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Done
  • Problem
  • President

• Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

  

  John Webster
  • Life
  • Death
  • Friend

• You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

  

  John Buchan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eye
  • Looks
  • Paint

• They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.

  

  Edmund Blunden
  • Friend
  • Eye
  • Glory