Edwin Muir Quotes

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Edwin Muir

• Light
• Patience
• Kindness
• Faults

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Work
  • Game
  • Style

• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Door

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Loved

• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Child
  • Deserve

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Take

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.

  

  Larry Wall

• There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Family

• In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

  

  Claude Simon
  • Philosophy
  • Plato
  • Distrust

• Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light, ne’er seen before,As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore.

  

  Charles Wolfe
  • Light

• I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy

• Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Light
  • Patience
  • Kindness