Esaias Tegner Quotes

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Money
  • Today
  • Economy

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Forever

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Devil
  • Pay

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Years
  • Old
  • Known

• The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • World
  • Different
  • Nature

• I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Tears

• Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Training

• So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts

• If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Process
  • Healing

• In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

  

  Esaias Tegner
  • Knowledge
  • Sun
  • Clear