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 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

• Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Home
  • Power

• I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

  

  Paula Broadwell
  • Important
  • Family

• Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

  

  Melissa Pritchard
  • Powerful
  • Romantic
  • Novel

• Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Actions
  • Background
  • Socialist

• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Fool

• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

  

  Leon Uris
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Irish

• 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