Edmund Gosse Quotes
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.Edmund Gosse
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty -
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo -
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
Randeep Hooda -
Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
Laila Ali -
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
Xavier Samuel -
War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas -
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
Oliver Stone -
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
Felix Frankfurter -
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Quavo Migos
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
L. Neil Smith -
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Maria Montessori -
Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…
Learned Hand -
At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project - an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.
J. G. Ballard -
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
Neil Gaiman
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Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
Peter Bergen -
I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.
Kevin Hart -
Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.
Bob Ainsworth -
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.
Edmund Gosse