Epes Sargent Quotes

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

Epes Sargent

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• I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Space

• Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Life

• My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Life
  • Different
  • Light

• Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Life

• The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

  

  James Altucher
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Universe

• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Diversity

• In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • War
  • Nature
  • Military

• There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Winds