Brad Leithauser Quotes
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.Brad Leithauser
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
Laura Prepon -
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
Jack Ma -
What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.
F. Gary Gray -
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
Madi Diaz -
When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
Barbara Demick
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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
Dallas Willard -
It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
Victoria Osteen -
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael -
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
W. H. Auden -
If I married him,I would not dare to call my soul my own,Which so he had bought and paid for: every thoughtAnd every heart-beat down there in the bill,–Not one found honestly deductibleFrom any use that pleased him!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Lately I've been lookin' through the windows of my soulAnd I can see there's not much left to holdJust an empty space surrounded by the pieces ofA badly broken heart that's forgotten how to love.
Toby Keith
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.
Scott Stapp -
Business is at the heart of America and always has been.
David A. Siegel -
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. -
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder -
Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
Pele
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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
Aristotle -
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
Roberto Azevedo -
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
J. G. Ballard -
Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
Boman Irani -
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
Brad Leithauser