Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Yet man, fool man! here buries all his thoughts; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh. Prisoner of earth, and pent beneath the moon, Here pinions all his wishes.

Edward Joseph Young

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Love
  • Business

• There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Home
  • Workshop

• In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Control
  • First
  • Standards

• J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Philosophical

• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Star

• ‘But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • May
  • Bitter

• Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Religious

• I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Book
  • Political
  • Communication

• I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

  

  James Carville
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Family
  • Together
  • Food

• I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Good
  • Friends

• Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Up
  • Growing

• Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Painting

• Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Good
  • Art
  • Science

• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Book

• Hieres y volverás a herir. Porque hieres y te apartas. No acompañas a la herida.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Fool
  • Liar

• I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• Yet man, fool man! here buries all his thoughts; Inters celestial hopes without one sigh. Prisoner of earth, and pent beneath the moon, Here pinions all his wishes.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Thoughts
  • Fool
  • Hopes