Edwin Muir Quotes

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Edwin Muir

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• Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Rich
  • Office
  • Profit

• I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Blue

• Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

  

  T-Pain
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community
  • Progress

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Way
  • Doing

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Reality

• I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Childhood

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Door

• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

  

  Jean Racine
  • Justice

• Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Why
  • Nobody
  • Likes

• Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Night
  • Girl

• When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • People
  • Time

• I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Foolish